Temperatures in Inukjuak are below freezing from mid-October to late May – the pronounced seasonal lag means May averages colder than October, April colder than November, and March colder than December. Only during a freakish warm wave on 5 December 1923 has Inukjuak recorded a temperature above between November and April, while January has only topped freezing in 1940. During the early winter snowfall is very heavy, averaging in November but tapering off somewhat as the freezing of Hudson Bay completes and reduces the availability of moisture. The most monthly snowfall has been in November 1933 and the most in one day on 11 November 1934, whilst the highest depth of snow on the ground has been on 14 April 1955.