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Has the climate in Rouyn-Noranda changed?

Rouyn-Noranda has warmed about 0.9°F between 1994 and 2020.

About 0.3°F per decade, measured from Rouyn-Noranda's official daily weather records, 1994–2020. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Rouyn-Noranda's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Canada — neither unusually fast nor unusually slow.

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
+0.3°F
1970s
36.5°F
Recent
36.8°F
A steady upward drift

Rouyn-Noranda's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1994 to 2020.

24°26°28°30°32°34°36°38°40°42°44°1994: 42.4°F1995: 25.0°F1996: 35.0°F1997: 35.4°F1998: 40.6°F1999: 38.9°F2000: 36.0°F2001: 39.3°F2002: 36.2°F2003: 35.6°F2004: 34.9°F2005: 38.4°F2006: 39.5°F2007: 36.5°F2008: 36.0°F2009: 35.8°F2010: 39.9°F2011: 37.7°F2012: 39.4°F2013: 36.1°F2014: 34.6°F2015: 36.6°F2016: 37.7°F2017: 37.7°F2018: 36.1°F2019: 35.1°F2020: 37.9°Flong-term trend1994200020102020
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 26 years of daily observations at Rouyn, a weather station, about 2 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →