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Weather extremes
How extreme does Sault Ste. Marie's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Sault Ste. Marie has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Sault Ste. Marie has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 20°F hotter than a normal July afternoon in Sault Ste. Marie (typical high near 77°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 44°F colder than a normal January night in Sault Ste. Marie (typical low near 8°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Sault Ste. Marie usually gets in the whole month of August (typical August total about 3.2 in).
The three most extreme on record
About 88% of a typical December's snow in a single day (Sault Ste. Marie averages roughly 30 in across the month).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Sault Ste. Marie's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — July's 97°F is about 20°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 21 years of daily observations at Sault Ste Marie A, a weather station, about 13 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.