Lots to mention this morning so we will start with the upcoming long holiday weekend. Both Canada Day and the 4th of July are this weekend - so travel with care. The last two weekends on local roads have been terrible, slow down, both hands on the wheel and pull over to text. Police on both sides of the border in Quebec and New York are teaming up as they did during the Easter long weekend to enforce all the rules of the road, look for them in numbers starting today. The weather is very cool and almost fall like this morning in Montreal. A gusty northwest wind and 15C temperatures is more like late September. It will be short lived as we are just on the edge of a very warm and humid air mass that is spreading into most of central and eastern North America. Temperatures will rise rapidly to near 30C by Saturday and will prevail into next week. It will be humid as well with the risk of thunderstorms by Sunday. It was very warm across Manitoba and the northern plains yesterday with humidex reading into the 40's.
TROPICAL STORM ARLENE moved inland this morning along the Mexican Gulf Coast near Cabo Rojo. Winds were about 65mph at landfall. Heavy rain will spread inland today with 4 to 8 inches forecast and as much as 15 inches over the mountainous terrain. Historically these storms become deadly as they move inland over Mexico with the heavy rain producing flash floods and mudslides. This will be a great concern for at least the next 48 hours.
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