M\u00e9t\u00e9oM\u00e9dia’s updated forecast<\/a>.<\/p>\nWednesday will be relatively mild, with scattered flurries and temps around -5\u00b0C in the afternoon (feeling like -12\u00b0C). But don’t get comfortable. By Thursday overnight, temperatures should drop to -11\u00b0C, feeling like -19\u00b0C.<\/p>\n
Friday is when the real plunge begins. Daytime highs will only reach -11\u00b0C, feeling more like -21\u00b0C with the wind. By Friday evening, we’re looking at -17\u00b0C (feeling like -27\u00b0C), and overnight temps will crater to -27\u00b0C \u2014 feeling like a bone-chilling -38\u00b0C.<\/p>\n
Saturday brings the worst of it. Even during the “warmest” part of the day, temps will only climb to -22\u00b0C, feeling like -32\u00b0C. Saturday morning will feel like -35\u00b0C, with the actual temperature sitting at -25\u00b0C.<\/p>\n
Sunday offers basically zero relief, with afternoon highs of -20\u00b0C feeling closer to -27\u00b0C, and overnight wind chills dropping back to -32\u00b0C.<\/p>\n
Even though winds won’t be particularly strong (around 15-20 km\/h), that’s still enough to push the feels-like temps into dangerous territory.<\/p>\n
Colder than Antarctica<\/p>\n
M\u00e9t\u00e9oM\u00e9dia points out that it’ll actually be colder here than in Antarctica this weekend, where interior temperatures typically hover around -30\u00b0C this time of year.<\/p>\n
This could also mark a historic cold snap for Montreal. The city might see a daytime high below -20\u00b0C on Saturday \u2014 something that hasn’t happened since January 6, 2018.<\/p>\n
Not just a one-day thing<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, this isn’t a quick freeze-and-thaw situation. This weekend kicks off what could be the coldest stretch of the entire winter.<\/p>\n
After Saturday’s deep freeze, temperatures will climb slightly but stay well below seasonal norms through the end of January. We’re not looking at a return to more typical temps until early February.<\/p>\n
As M\u00e9t\u00e9oM\u00e9dia put it: “Until then, Quebec remains stuck in the freezer.”<\/p>\n
So if you’re heading out this weekend, layer up like your life depends on it \u2014 because honestly, it kind of does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you thought Montreal’s winter was cold already, brace yourself \u2014 things are about to get really frigid.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,138290,12695,127230,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-424183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-meteo-media","12":"tag-montreal-news","13":"tag-montreal-weather","14":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}