A near perfect summer day is expected in southern Quebec today with sunshine and warm temperatures to 27C. Summer 2011 arrives at 1:16PM in the eastern time zone. Today is the one of the longest days of the year with close to 16 hours of daylight in Montreal. Tonight will be partly cloudy with lows around 15C. Wednesday will be sunny again and up to 27C. Increasing clouds will move in late in the day with rain and wind by Thursday ahead of low pressure and a warm front.
Sadly the weather is not so good in many other parts of North America. Searing heat is baking the southern Plains into the southwest with fires raging across Texas and Arizona in triple digit heat. meanwhile north of that a persistent upper level low spinning over western Canada is producing heavy thunderstorms and flooding from Saskatchewan across North Dakota and into the northern plains. Estevan in southeast Saskatchewan on the North Dakota border has had close to 300mm of rain since May 1. They normally receive about 325mmm for the entire year. Major flooding is occurring along the Souris River and also across fields and lakes in the region. A state of emergency is still in effect in Weyburn and the surrounding area. Across the Midwest yesterday severe weather produced tornadoes and flooding in Indiana and Tennessee.
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