Tuesday, February 17, 2009

The calm before the storm

The Seaway International Bridge in Cornwall on a beautiful day. Below: Last nights sunset was fiery in Montreal.

What a splendid day it was across eastern Ontario and southwest Quebec today. The mercury nudged just over the 0C mark and the sun was warm. It almost felt like spring. I had to head down the 401 to Cornwall today and the drive was perfect. It will not be perfect for the balance of the week. Consider today the calm before our next storm.

Low pressure organizing in the Midwest will move towards Toronto on Wednesday and deepen. The system will spread precipitation across Ontario and Quebec beginning mid-day tomorrow and continuing into Thursday. We can expect mostly rain south of a line from Kingston to Peterborough and south towards Windsor. North of that line in places like Ottawa, Kemptville, Montreal and Cornwall look for 5-10cm of wet snow before it mixes with rain on Thursday. The entire mess will change back to light snow and taper off by Friday. Winds will be very gusty from 30-50km/h out of the northeast and then southeast with the strongest winds in the St. Lawrence Valley. The track of the storm is still a little uncertain. If it moves further south across New York we may see more snow. Stay tuned I will post an update early tomorrow morning.

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