Commentary: The plows have been out and the roads disagree.
Latest reading−1.0°C04:00 local · 52 min agoReports about every 31 minutes · 40 readings in the last 24 hours.Source: NOAA METARToday so far1.0°/−1.0°High at 19:00 local · low at 00:31 localRange 2.0°C · from 14 observationsSource: NOAA METAR and SYNOPAll-time record high32.8°C1 September 1953. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 1950 to 1955All-time record low−45.6°C30 January 1951. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.Source: GHCN-Daily, 1950 to 1955
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happened
Jan
2.2°
Wed 17 Jan 1951
−45.6°
Tue 30 Jan 1951
Feb
8.9°
Fri 19 Feb 1954
−37.2°
Fri 9 Feb 1951
Mar
14.4°
Sun 22 Mar 1953
−35.6°
Mon 2 Mar 1953
Apr
22.8°
Fri 29 Apr 1955
−24.4°
Sat 3 Apr 1954
May
30.0°
On this day · Saturday 7 November
Record high
4.4°C
Sun 7 Nov 1954
Record low
−10.6°C
Sat 7 Nov 1953
Average high
−0.7°C
all years on record
1
Rouyn/Noranda Arpt has dropped below freezing on 800 nights since 1950. The desert remembers every one of them.
From our dataNights with a minimum below 0°C since 1950.
2
Right now Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station is 48.5°C colder than Rouyn/Noranda Arpt. Same planet. Same afternoon.
From our dataBoth readings are live and ranked on this site now.
3
The coldest night Rouyn/Noranda Arpt has ever recorded, −45.6°C, would pass for a warm spell at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, which is −49.5°C right now.
From our dataThis station's record low against the current live reading at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
Today’s high 1.0°C against 4.4°C in 1954. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
All-time record high
32.8°C
Date
Tuesday, 1 September 1953
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Rouyn/Noranda Arpt, Canada
Position
48.21°N 78.83°W · 304 m
The highest in available records since 1950. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1950 to 1955.
All-time record low
−45.6°C
Date
Tuesday, 30 January 1951
Time of day
Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
Location
Rouyn/Noranda Arpt, Canada
Position
48.21°N 78.83°W · 304 m
The lowest in available records since 1950. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1950 to 1955.
Recent readings
Each reading as it arrived, newest first, with what our quality checks did with it. A reading we did not count is shown struck through with the reason.
The most recent readings from Rouyn/Noranda Arpt, newest first, with the change from the reading before it and whether it was counted.
Time
Temp
Change
Status
−1.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
0.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
0.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
0.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
Recent temperature history
The same record at three widths, picking up where the last 24 hours above leaves off. Each period is summarised from the grain that suits it, so nothing here is one reading repeated thousands of times into the page.
Stations near Rouyn/Noranda Arpt, nearest first, with each one's high and low for the day against this station's own.
Rouyn/Noranda Arpt (CYUY) is a METAR weather station in Canada, 304 m above sea level, about 15 km from Rouyn-Noranda.
We have kept a daily record here since 22 September 2026, every one of the 47 days this site has existed. We have stored 1,387 observations across the 46 of those days for which we also recorded a count.
In summary
Over the last week we have readings for 7 days here, running from −1.0°C to 18.0°C, a spread of 19.0°C.
It reports about every 31 minutes, and sent 40 readings in the last 24 hours.
Its best placing today was 401st coldest of the 5,267 stations reporting.
What stands out here
Its widest single day so far swung 15.0°C between low and high.
It has dropped below freezing on 1 of the 7 days we have recorded here.
Recent highlights
Fell to −6.0°C, the lowest we have recorded here, beating −5.0°C on Sat 17 Oct 2026.
Entered the hundred coldest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 54th of 5,292.
Reached 23.0°C, its highest of October, beating 20.0°C on Thu 1 Oct 2026.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
23.0°C
Sun 11 Oct 2026 at 16:00 local
Lowest
−6.0°C
Tue 27 Oct 2026 at 08:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Rouyn/Noranda Arpt since September 2026, across 47 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
By month, from our own record
Monthly highest, lowest and mean temperature recorded at Rouyn/Noranda Arpt by this site.
Month
High
Low
Mean
Days
Readings
November 2026
18.0°C
−1.0°C
10.0°C
7
267
October 2026
23.0°C
−6.0°C
6.4°C
31
924
September 2026
23.0°C
−1.0°C
11.8°C
8 of 9
196
Means are of the readings we stored, weighted by how often this station reported, so they are not daily averages and not climate normals. Some days were recorded before we began counting observations and contribute their high and low but not the mean.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 23.0°C, lowest −6.0°C, mean 7.9°C. 47 days recorded from 1,387 readings.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 28 readings a day.
Daily highest and lowest air temperature at Rouyn/Noranda Arpt, most recent first.
This station lies about 5,400 km north of the equator.
Where Rouyn/Noranda Arpt is
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48.21°N 78.83°W
Rouyn/Noranda Arpt
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-11-06, from NASA GIBS. This is the temperature of the ground seen from orbit, not the air, and it is never ranked against air readings. Cloud hides the ground, so gaps are unread rather than guessed.
The warmest month on record here is September, when the highest reading has reached 32.8°C (91.0°F) on Tuesday, 1 September 1953.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Rouyn/Noranda Arpt?
The coldest month on record here is January, when the lowest reading has fallen to −45.6°C (−50.1°F) on Tuesday, 30 January 1951.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Rouyn/Noranda Arpt?
32.8°C (91.0°F) on Tuesday, 1 September 1953. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which runs since 1950. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Rouyn/Noranda Arpt?
−45.6°C (−50.1°F) on Tuesday, 30 January 1951. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which runs since 1950.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the temperature in Rouyn/Noranda Arpt right now?
−1.0°C (30.2°F), measured at 04:00 local on Saturday 7 November.
Live reading from the station, after our quality checks
Data sources for this page
Readings here arrive through NOAA METAR. METAR is the routine aerodrome weather report, issued for aviation, typically every 30 or 60 minutes and more often when conditions change. It updates far more frequently than a synoptic report, which is why these pages have a usable chart.
Where each figure on this page comes from.
Figure
Source
Type
Latest reading, today so far
NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP)
Measured, station
All-time, monthly and on-this-day records
NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCN-Daily), 1950 to 1955 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 47 days, which hold the record shown above
Measured, station
Nearby stations and distances
Computed from station positions in our own database
Calculated
Download these readings
Every reading we hold for Rouyn/Noranda Arpt that passed the checks above, as a file. The source networks are public domain and the file carries its own attribution.
Every reading on this page has passed the checks below. A reading that fails any of them is stored as refused and can never be ranked, shown as a record, or counted in a daily high or low.
8 readings from this station have been refused in the last 14 days.
Agrees with the stations around it: 8
01
Has a real position
A reading with no usable latitude and longitude is discarded. It cannot be ranked, mapped, or compared with its neighbours, and a temperature with no place is not an answer to which place is hottest.
02
Position is not a placeholder
Some feeds fill an unknown position with a stand-in value such as 99.99 degrees or an elevation of 9999 m. Those are not coordinates. They are caught separately from a missing position because a station placed at a fake point has no neighbours, so the neighbour check below can never see anything wrong with it.
03
The bulletin itself is current
SYNOP arrives as files that are only re-read when they change. A file that has stopped being updated is set aside whole, before any reading inside it is considered.
04
The reading is recent enough for its network
Different networks get different windows, because they report at different rates: 2 hours for METAR, which transmits continuously, and 9 hours for SYNOP, which reports at 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. A single rule would have discarded the entire synoptic network, including every station in Antarctica.
☀️ How −1.0°C comparesA typical November afternoon in Nuuk.Nuuk, Greenland, typically reaches −1.0°C in November, averaged over every November day its archive holds. Not a published climate normal: it is the mean of what we hold.Colder right now than 192 of the 195 capital cities we can read.It is colder here than in Moscow (0.0°C), Prague (1.0°C) and Vilnius (1.0°C) at this moment. Those are the coldest capitals still warmer than here, so every other one on the list is further behind.
Live capital readings, same observations as this page
Over the last 24 hours, temperatures observed at Rouyn/Noranda Arpt ranged from −1.0°C to 3.0°C, a spread of 4.0°C, from 40 readings. Times shown in local time.
Temperature readings at Rouyn/Noranda Arpt over the charted period, in local time.
Time
Temperature
05:00
3.0°C
05:18
3.0°C
05:42
3.0°C
06:00
3.0°C
06:26
3.0°C
06:41
3.0°C
07:00
3.0°C
07:34
2.0°C
08:00
2.0°C
09:06
2.0°C
10:00
2.0°C
11:00
3.0°C
12:09
3.0°C
12:31
3.0°C
13:00
2.0°C
13:56
3.0°C
14:00
3.0°C
15:00
3.0°C
15:35
2.0°C
16:00
2.0°C
16:21
2.0°C
17:00
2.0°C
17:43
2.0°C
18:00
2.0°C
18:34
2.0°C
18:49
1.0°C
19:00
1.0°C
19:53
1.0°C
20:00
0.0°C
21:00
1.0°C
21:56
0.0°C
22:00
0.0°C
23:00
−1.0°C
00:00
−1.0°C
00:31
−1.0°C
00:48
0.0°C
01:00
0.0°C
02:00
0.0°C
03:00
0.0°C
04:00
−1.0°C
Every year on record
NOAA GHCN-Daily
1950 to 1955
Annual average · °C
Trend over 4 years with data: +2.40 °C per decade
Annual average for each year, °C.
Year
Annual average
1950
no data
1951
6.9°C
1952
8.1°C
1953
9.0°C
1954
7.4°C
1955
no data
Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily. Years the station did not cover are left as gaps, never joined across. The dashed line is a least squares trend through the years that have data.
Fri 25 May 1951
−7.8°
Mon 14 May 1951
Jun
31.7°
Fri 26 Jun 1953
−3.9°
Wed 3 Jun 1953
Jul
32.2°
Fri 17 Jul 1953
1.1°
Tue 29 Jul 1952
Aug
31.7°
Thu 27 Aug 1953
−0.6°
Wed 30 Aug 1950
Sep
32.8°
Tue 1 Sep 1953
−3.9°
Wed 23 Sep 1953
Oct
24.4°
Sun 1 Oct 1950
−8.9°
Mon 20 Oct 1952
Nov ·
18.0°
Wed 4 Nov 2026
−22.2°
Mon 5 Nov 1951
Dec
12.2°
Fri 7 Dec 1951
−35.6°
Thu 31 Dec 1953
Source: NOAA GHCN-Daily and our own observations, whichever is more extreme. The upper figure is the highest held here in that month and the lower one is the lowest, each with the day it happened. The current month is outlined. A month marked with a dot is one this site recorded itself.
0.0°C
+1.0°C
Counted
low
−1.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
−1.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
−1.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
0.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
0.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
1.0°C
+1.0°C
Counted
0.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
1.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
high
1.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
1.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
2.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
2.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
2.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
2.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
2.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
2.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
2.0°C
−1.0°C
Counted
3.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
3.0°C
0.0°C
Counted
3.0°C
Counted
Times are local time. 25 readings counted.
highest to lowest
Mean
10.0°C
of the readings stored
The last 7 days we recorded: 7 days recorded, 267 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 30 days we recorded
Highest
23.0°C
Sun 11 Oct 2026
Lowest
−6.0°C
Tue 27 Oct 2026
Range
29.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
6.9°C
of the readings stored
The last 30 days we recorded: 30 days recorded, 936 readings. From the daily highs and lows we recorded.
Temperature over the last 12 months
Highest
23.0°C
Sun 11 Oct 2026
Lowest
−6.0°C
Tue 27 Oct 2026
Range
29.0°C
highest to lowest
Mean
7.9°C
of the readings stored
The last 12 months: 47 days recorded, 1,387 readings. From our monthly totals.
Observations stored by HottestAndColdest. A day we were not yet tracking is shown as an empty square, and says nothing about whether the station reported.
Is Rouyn/Noranda Arpt the coldest place on Earth?
Not right now: it is 975th of the 8,970 stations reporting to us. Its best position since we started watching is 54th of 9,132. We rank the stations that report to us, which is not the same as every place on Earth.
Our live rankings
Where does Rouyn/Noranda Arpt rank among the coldest places in Canada?
Right now it is 180th coldest of the 1,016 stations we track in Canada.
Anything above 56.8 °C or below -95 °C is refused. The ceiling sits just above the highest reading WMO accepts, so a genuine new world record would be refused here too: a record needs adjudicating, not a live tile on a home page. The floor is deliberately further from its record, because the Antarctic plateau is thinly instrumented and a real extreme there has far less around it to corroborate it.
06
Not a jump too large to be weather
A change of more than 15 °C from this station's previous reading within 60 minutes is treated as a failing sensor. The limit is set from measured data: real weather reaches about 12 °C in an hour at desert sunrise or under a thunderstorm outflow, and the faults found were 20 °C and more.
07
Agrees with the stations around it
A reading more than 12 °C from the median of other stations within 150 km is refused. It needs at least 3 neighbours to run at all, so it protects dense networks and can say nothing about an isolated station, which is why the other checks above have to stand on their own.