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Has the climate in Moose Jaw changed?

Moose Jaw has cooled about 3.2°F between 1998 and 2020.

About 1.4°F per decade, measured from Moose Jaw's official daily weather records, 1998–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Moose Jaw's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Canada.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Average temperature
−1.4°F
1970s
40.4°F
Recent
39.0°F
A small downward drift

Moose Jaw's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1998 to 2020.

34°36°38°40°42°44°46°48°50°1998: 48.3°F1999: 40.4°F2000: 37.8°F2001: 41.1°F2002: 37.8°F2003: 39.2°F2004: 38.0°F2005: 39.7°F2006: 41.6°F2007: 39.4°F2008: 37.6°F2009: 35.8°F2010: 38.8°F2011: 39.0°F2012: 39.8°F2013: 36.1°F2014: 37.2°F2015: 41.0°F2016: 41.8°F2017: 39.5°F2018: 37.2°F2019: 36.5°F2020: 39.6°Flong-term trend1998200020102020
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 23 years of daily observations at Moose Jaw CS, a weather station, about 8 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →