It’s quite a weather cocktail to which Quebecers will be entitled this weekend with snow showers and rain, particularly in the south where the weather will take on a tropical appearance with double-digit positive temperatures.
Rain mixed with snow begins Friday afternoon in the greater Montreal area, but we can expect some snow accumulations of no more than 2 to 4 centimeters during the day in western areas of the province such as Gatineau and Rouyn-Noranda.
But the snow will intensify profusely overnight from Friday into Saturday for the extreme south-west of Quebec as well as the north-eastern sectors, particularly Charlevoix, the Côte-Nord and the Gaspésie, which could receive up to 35 centimeters of snow by Saturday evening.
After a sunny Friday, the system will also impact the rest of the province’s central and eastern sectors with snow or rain, particularly in Quebec, Beauce and Estrie, according to Environment Canada.
Temperatures will rise unusually on Saturday, reaching 12 degrees in southern Quebec, particularly in Montreal, or even 15 degrees in Montérégie, before suddenly dropping again the next day amid flawless sunshine in the sky.
Up to 35 centimeters of snow in Gaspé
Snow of this intensity in April is by no means a new phenomenon, falling an average of 13 centimeters over the same period, but the Gaspé region has already experienced a record 35 centimeters in the past. .
Until then, if we exclude Estrie, the white carpet is more important than normal almost everywhere in Quebec, but of less importance in Montreal, which according to Météo Média receives precipitation in April in the form of rain.
Even though spring is here, Saturday’s mercury spike does not suggest a mild Easter month, at least in the short term, due to an unfavorable atmospheric environment for mercury spikes.