Freezing rain expected Tuesday in certain regions of Quebec

Environment Canada has issued weather alerts and special weather bulletins for several areas of Quebec where freezing rain and snow are expected on Tuesday.

Environment Canada warns that “surfaces, such as roads, streets, sidewalks and parking lots, could become icy and slippery” on Tuesday for several sectors of the Laurentians, Lanaudière and in certain places in Montérégie, where alerts have been issued. published.

Consult Environment Canada’s forecasts

In the Montreal area, a special weather report indicates that a “brief period of freezing rain” will change to rain Tuesday morning.

It is “a weather system that “will bring three phases of precipitation to southern Quebec,” explained André Monette, head of the meteorology department at MétéoMédia.

According to his forecasts, 5 to 10 centimeters of snow could fall in the northern Laurentians and Lanaudière.

“For the Lower Laurentians up to Laval, we will have freezing rain which will change to rain during the morning, Tuesday,” added the meteorologist.

As for the Montreal region, “we may have a brief episode of freezing rain and then rain.”

Snow on the horizon

Meteorologists are monitoring “another system” which will occur at the end of the week and which could “perhaps bring a bout of snow to southern Quebec”, but “we are still uncertain about the trajectory of the system”, said specified André Monette.