Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainCommunauté de Wemotaci has some of the coldest winter nights among Canadian towns
The warmest part of a July day comes in at 23.1°C on average. By July afternoons alone, it runs cooler than 88% of Canadian towns. Seasons differ by 46°C, from the coldest nights to the warmest afternoons. The furnace earns its keep from October to May, the months that average under 10°C.
Far-off figures: ECCC’s closest normals for Communauté de Wemotaci come from Parent, 63 km west, so take them as the area’s climate.
A year in Communauté de Wemotaci at a glance
Each month’s typical high and low, in °C.
What stands out about Communauté de Wemotaci’s climate
Compared with Canadian towns, with its place among towns of 2,500+ in Quebec beside it.
What a year in Communauté de Wemotaci feels like
Typical highs and lows by season and by month, from ECCC’s 1991–2020 normals.
About 207 frosts and 82 warm days a year
From September to June frost is routine, and in January it comes on almost every night. Deep cold, under −20°C, comes on about 59 nights a year.
Frost days by month
Average days at 0°C or below
Days above 20°C by month
Average days
Rain and melted snow: about 1,080 mm a year
July brings the most rain and snow; February, the least. About 157 days a year bring 1 mm or more.
Rain and snow by month
Millimetres
Heating a home in Communauté de Wemotaci
88% of a year’s heating need falls between October and April. Months averaging under 10°C: October to May.
Heating degree days total each day’s gap between its mean temperature and 18°C. Over a year, a home here needs more heating than 98% of Canadian towns.
Living with Communauté de Wemotaci’s climate
The averages read for the garden, the outdoors and the coldest and hottest days.
Plan time outside for Jul and Aug: highs of 17–27°C and nights no colder than 8°C.
Parks & trails →Wind chill falls below −20 on about 67 days a year: cover skin and dress in layers.
The humidex tops 30 on about 19 days a year: muggy days to plan around.
Thirty years of averages say little about one bad storm; Communauté de Wemotaci’s hazards page does.
Flood & hazards →ECCC’s normals location: Parent
ECCC builds the Parent normals from 2 stations’ records over 1991–2020, joined where one replaced another.
| Distance from the town | 63 km west |
| Station altitude | 410 m |
| Completeness | at least 20 years |
| WMO standard normals | No |
| Snowfall from | No location within 100 km |
| Coldest reading, 1991–2020 | −45.1°C |
| Hottest reading, 1991–2020 | 33.5°C |
| Average wind | 6.1 km/h on average, most often from the west |
| Next-nearest location | La Tuque, 94 km |
How Communauté de Wemotaci compares
Against the 2,611 Canadian towns and neighbourhoods of 2,500 or more, each read from its own normals location; the dots are the other locations those towns use in Quebec.
Nearby towns’ climate
Nearby places read from a different ECCC location (places on Communauté de Wemotaci’s own would show the same figures). Distances here run 89–131 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Communauté de Wemotaci.
| Town | July high | January low | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communauté de Wemotaci Parent | 23.1°C | −23.1°C | 1,080 mm |
| La Tuque 89 km · La Tuque | 25.5°C 2.4°C warmer | −21.1°C 2.0°C milder | 935 mm |
| La Doré 124 km · Normandin | 23.9°C 0.8°C warmer | −23.4°C about the same | 911 mm |
| Lac-Bouchette 124 km · Roberval | 23.7°C 0.6°C warmer | −20.8°C 2.3°C milder | 911 mm |
Communauté de Wemotaci weather by month
Average daily high and low, mean temperature and precipitation by month, 1991–2020.
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Rain & snow |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | −10.2°C | −23.1°C | −16.8°C | 91 mm |
| February | −8.0°C | −21.9°C | −15.0°C | 54 mm |
| March | −1.6°C | −15.4°C | −8.5°C | 63 mm |
| April | 6.3°C | −5.9°C | 0.2°C | 76 mm |
| May | 16.1°C | 2.1°C | 9.1°C | 84 mm |
| June | 21.2°C | 7.6°C | 14.4°C | 95 mm |
| July | 23.1°C | 10.8°C | 17.0°C | 117 mm |
| August | 21.7°C | 9.6°C | 15.7°C | 110 mm |
| September | 17.0°C | 5.3°C | 11.1°C | 100 mm |
| October | 9.1°C | 0.0°C | 4.6°C | 104 mm |
| November | 0.9°C | −7.2°C | −3.2°C | 96 mm |
| December | −6.2°C | −16.1°C | −11.2°C | 90 mm |
| Year | 7.5°C | −4.5°C | 1.5°C | 1,080 mm |
Two years in three, January’s average lands within 3.5°C of normal, against the steadier July
Over 1991–2020, March saw both −38.0°C (1993) and 24.7°C (2012), the widest span of any month.
Where Communauté de Wemotaci’s numbers come from
Averages over 30 years, not a forecast.
- Normals: the 1991–2020 normals from ECCC for Parent, its nearest location with complete temperatures.
- Comparisons: every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 or more, each read from its own nearest location; city totals and reserves are left out.
- Not on this page: snowfall (no location within 100 km publishes a full year of it), sunshine (none for 1991–2020) and an altitude correction.
Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020 · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence. Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Questions about Communauté de Wemotaci’s climate
How warm does Communauté de Wemotaci get in summer?
Expect highs near 23.1°C in July, the hottest month on average.
How cold does Communauté de Wemotaci get in winter?
Midwinter means January, when a typical night reaches −23.1°C.
How much rain and snow does Communauté de Wemotaci get?
A normal year brings 1,080 mm, snow included as water: July is wettest at 117 mm, February driest at 54 mm.
Are these figures for Communauté de Wemotaci itself?
No: they come from Parent, the nearest ECCC normals location, and far enough away to describe the wider area more than Communauté de Wemotaci.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada · ECCC Data Services End-use Licence Today’s forecast for Communauté de Wemotaci →
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