Quebec Climate Monitoring Network with 135 Stations

Quebec's Ministry of Environment, Climate Change, Wildlife and Parks operates a network of 135 climate monitoring stations. The network provides continuous, quality-assessed hourly data on temperature, precipitation, rainfall, snowfall, wind, and weather phenomena. Data feeds are updated twice daily or in real time.

Use Cases

• Predicting temperature trends based on hourly surface observations
• Analyzing precipitation patterns based on total precipitation, rainfall, and snowfall data
• Modeling wind behavior based on wind speed and direction measurements
• Detecting weather phenomena based on observational reports

Strengths

• 135 stations provide a distributed monitoring network across Quebec
• Quality assessment is confirmed for the data
• Hourly sampling frequency offers high temporal granularity

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data is provided in HTML format, which may require parsing for structured analysis

Provenance

Source

Ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec

Collection Method

Mixed automated and manual observations from a surface and climate monitoring network.

Freshness

Data feed frequency is twice a day or in real time.

Geography

Quebec, Canada