While autumn is well established in Quebec, we can already wonder what winter 2024-2025 has in store for us weather-wise. Well, forecasts have already been released for the cold season and it looks quite unpleasant…
Already, in this month of October, discouraging predictions tell us that temperatures are likely to change quickly and quite suddenly. In fact, we could see the early arrival of the very first snow and the rapid onset of lasting cold across the entire province.
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If a mild start to winter is one of the options presented by MétéoMédia, weather cocktails could also be “adventure” in one of the most incredible scenarios.
What you need to know: The specialist channel’s preliminary forecasts were released on Wednesday, October 8, and “a big winter” is likely to appear quite quickly in December.
“Some indications suggest that winter will set in a little more clearly than in recent years. The cold and the snow were often long in coming. It would be different this year,” says meteorologist Réjean Ouimet.
However, will we have a mild winter or a cold winter? That is the question! In fact, this could largely depend on La Niña, this natural climatic phenomenon which is characterized by an abnormal cooling of surface waters in the Pacific Ocean, near the equator.
La Niña would thus have the power to determine the nature of precipitation during the winter season. For example, if arctic air descents occur regularly during the winter, snow will be there more often than not. “Otherwise, mixtures of rain, snow, ice and sleet are expected,” we can read on the MétéoMédia website.
What’s coming: The beautiful autumn days may come to an abrupt end in November.
According to the Farmers’ Almanac forecast, flakes should arrive fairly quickly into the season. Melting snow could appear as early as November 8, then again around November 16 with heavy precipitation in the Laurentians. A file to follow!
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