The Sixth Estate

The Canadian Climate Survey is tracking historical and average temperatures in cities and towns across the country, as part of an effort to put something of a local face on global climate change.

Prince Rupert has undergone significant warming over the twentieth century, but in recent years Environment Canada’s homogenized dataset suggests that the temperature has stabilized at a new, warm level — an average annual temperature of about 7.5 ˚C during the 1980s and 1990s. Unfortunately, the dataset stops in 2009 and the new site, has records going back only to last year.

 

* Data for this chart was taken from the Environment Canada homogenized data archive.

 

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