Highway 402 remains closed - more snow for Montreal

The onslaught of winter weather continues from coast to coast in Canada. Starting in Atlantic Canada, a fierce coastal storm produced heavy flooding rain and strong winds yesterday. Winds gusted over 100km/h in Nova Scotia with numerous trees down, damage to homes and thousands without power. Thanks to that famous Greenland high pressure that is blocking the eastward movement of storms, that system is moving west into Quebec this morning with steady snow approaching Quebec City. That snow will reach Montreal this afternoon and continue tonight with gusty northwest winds producing blowing snow. A good 5-10cm can be expected from Montreal to Burlington, VT and northeast to Quebec City. Lesser amounts are expected in eastern Ontario with less than 5cm in Ottawa and Kemptville.

In Ontario lake effect snow continues to be a problem in the southwest and areas adjacent to Lake Huron. Over 50cm has piled up in the region west of London, driven by 70km/h winds producing blizzard conditions. OPP are still trying to reopen the 402 between Sarnia and London. They rescued nearly 230 motorists yesterday with the help of the Canadian Armed Forces and two helicopters from CFB Trenton. The task now is to remove the 200 trucks and 150 cars that have been left abandoned as a resilt of the storm. Some drivers were trapped nearly 24 hours in their vehicles.

Out west it is bitterly cold across Manitoba, and a Pacific air mass moving into Alberta and Saskatchewan has produced widespread freezing rain and icy roads.

There...that's is it for today. By the way the best city to be in in North America today, Dallas, Texas, plus 25C (77F) and sunny.