Weekend Update

The long weekend is upon is several parts of the country. The weather looks ideal in Ontario and Quebec with sunny skies and temperatures around 28C for both Saturday and Sunday. Today we have low pressure with a warm and cold front to our west. The warm front will cross the region early today with some showers or thunderstorms followed by the cold front later today with more storms. Radar shows a narrow band of precipitation marching across Ontario towards the Quebec border this morning. It will be warm and humid with highs around 29C, we are currently 23C in Montreal.

(National Hurricane Center)

Tropical Storm Don
Tropical storm Don remains poorly organized and somewhat elongated this morning over the Gulf of Mexico with 50mph winds. The storm is heading northwest at 14 mph towards the lower Texas coast. Don should make landfall tonight near Corpus Christie with slightly stronger winds and a surge of 1-2 feet. The rain from Don will not by any means be a drought buster for the parched state, but welcome nonetheless. Look for 2-5 inches along the path of Don with as much as 7 inches locally. The rain will be confined to South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley. Tropical Storm Warnings are flying along the Texas coast from the mouth of the Rio Grande River north to Matagorda.