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Has the climate in Los Mochis changed?

Los Mochis has warmed about 2.9°F between 1971 and 2009.

About 0.8°F per decade, measured from Los Mochis's official daily weather records, 1971–2009. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Los Mochis's warming is broadly in line with other cities in Mexico — 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.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
+1.8°F
1970s
76.6°F
Recent
78.4°F
A steady upward drift
Hot days above 90°F
30 more days
1970s
193 / yr
Recent
223 / yr
More days of serious heat
Rainy days
4 fewer days
1970s
28 / yr
Recent
24 / yr
Drier on average

Los Mochis's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 1971 to 2009.

73°75°77°79°81°1971: 74.9°F1972: 76.9°F1973: 75.6°F1974: 75.7°F1975: 75.1°F1976: 76.3°F1977: 77.6°F1978: 77.5°F1979: 76.5°F1980: 77.9°F1981: 77.7°F1982: 77.2°F1983: 77.9°F1984: 77.3°F1985: 77.1°F1986: 78.9°F1987: 78.4°F1988: 78.4°F1989: 78.2°F1991: 77.9°F1992: 78.9°F1993: 78.5°F1994: 79.1°F1995: 79.6°F1996: 78.8°F1997: 78.8°F1998: 77.0°F1999: 77.0°F2000: 77.1°F2001: 77.4°F2002: 79.0°F2003: 80.1°F2004: 78.5°F2005: 79.6°F2006: 79.8°F2007: 78.3°F2008: 78.3°F2009: 78.8°Flong-term trend1971198020002009
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.

In day-to-day terms, that long-term shift shows up as about 8 more days above 90°F compared with the 1970s.

When in the year the change shows up

How much warmer each month is now than in the 1970s. Useful if you garden or care about a particular season — otherwise the headline above already has the answer.

-0.5°0.0°+0.5°+1.0°+1.5°+2.0°January: +0.8°F+0.8JFebruary: +0.6°F+0.6FMarch: +0.8°F+0.8MApril: +0.8°F+0.8AMay: +1.9°F+1.9MJune: +1.2°F+1.2JJuly: +1.4°F+1.4JAugust: +1.4°F+1.4ASeptember: +0.8°F+0.8SOctober: +1.3°F+1.3ONovember: +1.3°F+1.3NDecember: -0.1°F-0.1D

May has warmed the most — about 1.9°F. The warming runs across the whole year, not just one season.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — 1991–2020 normals computed from 19 years of daily observations at Los Mochis, a weather station, about 4 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

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