Monday, October 13, 2008

Warm in Ontario/Quebec

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

If you are in the east you are enjoying a very warm day. Temperatures exceeded 20C yesterday in many parts of Ontario and Quebec and will do so again today and Tuesday before it cools down by the end of the week. A few showers are occurring around Montreal this morning along a warm front, but they will be short in nature and sun will return this afternoon.

Meanwhile western Canada continues cold. Regina has reported 17cm of snow with much more towards the Montana border. Temperatures remain below freezing with flurries and icy roads. Numerous accidents were reported along with a fatal collision near Yorkton. RCMP are not advising travel along the Trans Canada east of Regina. In Manitoba it was heavy rain that fell, with 25-60mm observed. Across the high plains and Rockies as much as 100cm of wet snow fell with many roads closed and power outages reported. The storm was fed with moisture from the remains of Pacific Hurricane Norbert that came onshore in Mexico. Norbert, once a category 4 hurricane dissipated rapidly after landfall, but fed the tropical moisture northwards into very cold air. The snowstorm this morning is weakening over Manitoba.

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