Poste Montagnais, Quebec
Coordinates: 51°53′30″N 65°43′45″W / 51.89167°N 65.72917°W[1]
Poste Montagnais or Poste des Montagnais[1] is a community in Quebec. It is served by the Poste Montagnais Airport. It mainly serves the Hydro-Québec's electrical substation, "Poste Montagnais" (Montagnais Substation) in the Côte-Nord region, approximately 12 km (7.5 mi) south of the border of Labrador. According to the Canadian Geographical Names Database, part of Natural Resources Canada, it is located in Lac-Jérôme, in the extreme western part of the Minganie Regional County Municipality[1] but is in the Sept-Rivières Regional County Municipality.
Climate
Poste Montagnais has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc), with long cold winters and short warm summers. The warmest temperature recorded was 33 °C (91.40 °F) on June 23, 1989. The coldest temperature recorded was −50 °C (−58.00 °F) on January 30, 1976. Poste Montagnais has pretty uniform precipitation throughout the year with slightly more in the summer months. During the winter Poste Montagnais accumulates 286.1 centimetres (112.64 in) of snow which melts in the spring.[2]
| Climate data for Poste Montagnais (1971–2000 normals) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 5.5 (41.9) |
7.8 (46.0) |
13.9 (57.0) |
17.8 (64.0) |
28 (82) |
33 (91) |
32.2 (90.0) |
32.2 (90.0) |
27.2 (81.0) |
18.9 (66.0) |
10 (50) |
5 (41) |
33 (91) |
| Average high °C (°F) | −16.1 (3.0) |
−13.1 (8.4) |
−6 (21) |
1.9 (35.4) |
9.2 (48.6) |
16.7 (62.1) |
19.5 (67.1) |
18.1 (64.6) |
11.2 (52.2) |
3 (37) |
−4.5 (23.9) |
−12.7 (9.1) |
2.3 (36.1) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −23.3 (−9.9) |
−20.9 (−5.6) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−4.3 (24.3) |
3.2 (37.8) |
9.9 (49.8) |
13.2 (55.8) |
11.9 (53.4) |
6 (43) |
−1 (30) |
−9.4 (15.1) |
−19.4 (−2.9) |
−3.9 (25.0) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −30.4 (−22.7) |
−28.6 (−19.5) |
−20.6 (−5.1) |
−10.5 (13.1) |
−2.8 (27.0) |
3.2 (37.8) |
6.9 (44.4) |
5.8 (42.4) |
0.8 (33.4) |
−5.1 (22.8) |
−14.3 (6.3) |
−26 (−15) |
−10.1 (13.8) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −50 (−58) |
−49 (−56) |
−47 (−53) |
−36.1 (−33.0) |
−20 (−4) |
−10 (14) |
−3.3 (26.1) |
−5 (23) |
−13.9 (7.0) |
−22.8 (−9.0) |
−37 (−35) |
−48.9 (−56.0) |
−50 (−58) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 51.5 (2.03) |
29 (1.1) |
34.5 (1.36) |
34.3 (1.35) |
54.1 (2.13) |
89.2 (3.51) |
116.1 (4.57) |
102.2 (4.02) |
96.4 (3.80) |
71.2 (2.80) |
55 (2.2) |
56.9 (2.24) |
790.4 (31.12) |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | 51.4 (20.2) |
26.4 (10.4) |
33.1 (13.0) |
29.9 (11.8) |
12.0 (4.7) |
0.3 (0.1) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
2.9 (1.1) |
25.5 (10.0) |
48.7 (19.2) |
56.0 (22.0) |
286.1 (112.6) |
| Source: Environment Canada[2] | |||||||||||||
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Poste Montagnais". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Canadian Climate Normals Temperature and Precipitation Graph for 1971 to 2000". Environment Canada. Government of Canada. 19 January 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2017.
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