Saturday, January 01, 2011

Welcome to 2011


Windmill Point (Pointe du Moulin) on Ile Perrot in the fog this New Years morning. ValleyWX Pic

HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone. Welcome to Valley Weather and my 32nd consecutive year of keeping weather records and year number 7 of this blog. I have tried to freshen the look a little. Please, feel free to drop me some comments about how easy or hard it is to find the various links and read the content. Any input good or otherwise is always appreciated.

We have a foggy and very warm start to 2011. It is very mild in Montreal today, 6C here on Ile Perrot, and the warm air is covering the entire region. Temperatures are running as much as 15 degrees above normal. The mild air has melted lots of the snow cover, so with the abundance of low level moisture, we have had dense fog most of the overnight period that is just slowly starting to burn off. Visibility was a low as 0.2km at the airport around 8am and has slowly improved to 5km as of noon.

Radar is showing a cold front advancing across Ontario at this hour with steady rain occurring along it. That front will move into Quebec this evening and temperature should begin to drop to more seasonable values on Sunday. No major storms are on the horizon at this time.

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