Weekend Update

This has been a crazy winter to date with so much serious weather in so many corners of the planet. Major flooding continues across parts of Brazil and Columbia along with the record breaking flooding in Australia. Big snowstorms and ice have been affecting the southern US up the coast towards the northeast and New England. In the last week some portions of interior New England have had 3 feet of snow. Yesterday snow fell across southern BC and over 35cm fell on southeast Newfoundland.

This morning an Alberta clipper is racing across the southern Prairies with snow and blowing snow. About 10cm is falling along the storm track with the coldest air of the season expected to filter into Ontario and Quebec by the end of the weekend. That clipper will pass near Ottawa and across southern Quebec late Saturday. Along and north of the track about 5cm of snow can be expected. Sunday will be sunny but much colder and windy with high temperatures only near -10C

Looking ahead briefly to next week, there are indications that a big snowstorm could affect southern Ontario and Quebec. Low pressure will develop in the western US and move towards New England. It is expected to pass just south of our area, this places Montreal in a zone of possible heavy snow. I will have more on that as the weekend prevails. One thing is certain, expect mid-winter conditions to continue well through the end of this month with no warm air to speak of.