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As a Canadian,
it amazes me how many A's and B's are voted for a climate with an average frost-free season of less than 100 days.
It's like the opposite to somewhere like Jackson MS or Dallas TX:
"...Fickle, sometimes anemic summers with long, very intense winters and short, poorly defined shoulder seasons..."
Just swap "winter" for "summer" and it sounds like an identical description imho.
I don't think most Canadians would think Val D'Ors climate is anything special.
If they like it, chances are they like most of Canada too, or are easy to please climate-wise
^^ But I'm glad some people like it for things like snowmobiling.
I give it a definite A, bordering on A+. It is a very nice climate, and a terrific find. It is superb, featuring nearly perfect winter temperatures, a good amount of snowfall, good record highs and lows, and good temperatures year-round. The only thing stopping it from getting an A+ is the summers which are a tad too warm and a tad too humid, and the winter record highs which are a tad too warm. Other than that I have nothing to gripe about. Even with the summer average high of 74F, the average low of 51F is nothing to complain about. Winter record lows are quite good, but the winter record highs could be somewhat lower. The precipitation amount is excellent, as is the number of precipitation days and sunshine.
For sure, this is one of the best climates in Canada. If it was a bit drier in summer, a bit cooler during summer afternoons, and if the winter record highs were about 5F cooler, it would be solid A+.
As for the seasonal pattern, the cooler-summer subarctic climates (not so much this one but even this one has elements of it) are like the mirror image of the Deep South, namely featuring a long winter and a short spring that then goes back to winter, which is the mirror of a Deep South climate, which features a long summer and a short autumn that then goes back to summer. I strongly prefer that sort of "inverted Deep South" seasonal pattern myself. That sort of place isn't a true four-season climate, but it suits me just fine.
It's also worth noting that the shoulder seasons are more present in a place like that than in its evil (read: warm) twin, because Breakup and the post-summer/pre-snowpack brown season provide a stand-in for Spring and Autumn, as in discernible periods between Summer and Winter, that Deep South climates lack when they transition to their version of Winter.
And as for a frost-free season that lasts less than 100 days, there are those of us who like frost to persist through most or even all of the year. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't mind living in some high-altitude Mountain West climates that feature no frost-free season at all, but generally I prefer a summer that is for the most part frost-free (an occasional freeze isn't minded though).
Yes. They're even better than this one and feature the best of the country (A+ grade), but given that coastal Labrador, portions of Newfoundland, and some areas in the Yukon comprise only a small portion of the land area in Canada, this one is still one of the best.
My ideal climate would be around 10°C colder throughout the year. It's also too sunny. C. Quebec is very severe for its latitude though, this is at 48° N.
My ideal climate would be around 10°C colder throughout the year. It's also too sunny. C. Quebec is very severe for its latitude though, this is at 48° N.
You want 10 C colder than Val D'Or year round?
The new Val D'Or average highs:
Winter: -20 C / -5 F
April: - 4 C / 24 F
May: + 4 C / 39 F
June: + 11 C / 52 F
July: +13 C / 56 F
Sep: +8 C / 46 F
Oct: + 1 C / 34 F
Nov: -8 C / 18 F
Add to that a climate with zero heat island effect and expect nights to be 11-15 C / 20-30 F colder still.
Winter: -20 C / -5 F
April: - 4 C / 24 F
May: + 4 C / 39 F
June: + 11 C / 52 F
July: +13 C / 56 F
Sep: +8 C / 46 F
Oct: + 1 C / 34 F
Nov: -8 C / 18 F
Add to that a climate with zero heat island effect and expect nights to be 11-15 C / 20-30 F colder still.
A city with such a climate would be well north of the tree line, deep in the tundra.
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