More water, mud and flooding for California yesterday. (LA Times)It has been quite a stormy holiday period, just not in southern Quebec. The weather map this morning features that departing monster northeast storm finally moving east of Atlantic Canada. That storm by the way had a low barometric pressure reading near Nantucket similar to that of a Category 3 hurricane at 28.44". Another powerful storm hammered the California coast yesterday with more flooding and mudslides. The storm has now moved into the Rockies with a surge of warm air on the east flank of the storm and bitter cold on the west side. Snow and blowing snow with blizzard conditions are spreading across most of the Rockies and northern plains north into extreme southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The snow will spread across the upper Midwest and northwest Ontario today. Further east the threat will be in the form of light freezing drizzle or rain across Ontario and southern Quebec, but it will be very light and brief later New Years Eve. If it becomes a problem and impacts travel I will post that later today or Friday. Today will be cloudy and mild with a flurrie or two. Temperatures will nose above freezing today in our region and remain there into the weekend.
Further south a big warm up will occur melting some of that snow that fell earlier this week. There will also be a threat for severe weather across portions of the southern US to end 2010. Looking ahead the weather will be seasonable and cloudy to start the New Year in Ontario and Quebec with no major storms in sight at this time.
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