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Great Bear Lake - Climate, Note

Lake in Northwest Territories, NW Canada, on the Arctic Circle; 320 km/200 mi long; 40–177 km/25–110 mi wide; maximum depth 413 m/1356 ft; area 31 153 km²/12 025 sq mi; drained SW by the Great Bear R; navigable for only four months each year because of ice.

Climate

Between 1950 and 1974, this climatic data was collected at Port Radium:

Month Temperature
(°C)
Precipitation
(mm)
Bright sunshine
(hours)
Jan –27.0 11 0.19
Feb –27.0 8 1.82
Mar –19.1 14 7.57
Apr –10.7 6 16.03
May +1.2 14 21.76
Jun +9.0 14 23.16
Jul +12.0 35 18.54
Aug +10.6 43 11.97
Sep +5.3 25 6.20
Oct –3.2 27 2.85
Nov –14.8 25 0.39
Dec –23.0 14 0.00
Average –7.2 10
Total 236

Note

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