More record warmth



From AccuWeather.com the Spring 2012 outlook. Lots of red means lots of warmth for Quebec and eastern Canada.

The only thing that may overshadow the warm and seemingly storm free winter of 2011/2012 may be the warm and storm free spring of 2012. As a matter of fact we may skip spring all together and just jump into summer, as this week will be warm and next week as well. Just how warm? Well I think areas without snow cover and away from the effects of cold water could see highs over 20C by early next week. Montreal had another record high yesterday, the second of this young month, reaching 11.2C beating the old high of 10C set in 1977. Toronto also had a record high at an incredible 17.7C. The normal high for Montreal on March 11 should have been 2C. We are at 2C now for our low. Today will be another sunny day with high temperatures in the low teens, about 10 degrees above normal. A weak disturbance will give some showers tonight and Tuesday, but still very warm at 14C tomorrow. The balance of the week will feature fair weather and warm with highs from 12 to 16C and low from 2 to 4C.

We are coming up to the anniversary of the March Superstorm of 1993. I hope to track down some video I shot during that storm when Montreal received 43cm of snow in about 12 hours on a Saturday night.