Climate
Great Bear Lake is covered with ice from late November to July. Between 1950 and 1974, this climatic data set was collected at Port Radium:
| Climate data for Port Radium (temperature & precipitation), Norman Wells (sunshine) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −27 (−16.6) |
−27 (−16.6) |
−19.1 (−2.4) |
−10.7 (12.7) |
1.2 (34.2) |
9.0 (48.2) |
12.0 (53.6) |
10.6 (51.1) |
5.3 (41.5) |
−3.2 (26.2) |
−14.8 (5.4) |
−23 (−9.4) |
−7.2 (19.0) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 11 (0.43) |
8 (0.31) |
14 (0.55) |
6 (0.24) |
14 (0.55) |
14 (0.55) |
35 (1.38) |
43 (1.69) |
25 (0.98) |
27 (1.06) |
25 (0.98) |
14 (0.55) |
236 (9.29) |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 26.9 | 75.6 | 167.6 | 230.0 | 292.6 | n/a | n/a | 238.0 | 126.1 | 53.7 | n/a | 7.3 | n/a |
| Source #1: World Lakes Database | |||||||||||||
| Source #2: Sunshine data from 1961-1990 Environment Canada | |||||||||||||
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