{"id":500995,"date":"2026-02-26T14:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500995\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:52:11","slug":"montreal-weather-mixed-metaphors-are-fine-if-youre-talking-about-mixed-precipitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500995\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal weather: Mixed metaphors are fine if you&#8217;re talking about mixed precipitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There are 22 days till spring, but the The Weather Network is getting a head start with its forecast for the season to come, calling it \u201cthe scenic route from winter to summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It also calls it a wild card, because mixing metaphors is fine if you\u2019re talking about mixed precipitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/en\/news\/weather\/seasonal\/canada-2026-spring-forecast\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The predictions suggest;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The predictions suggest<\/a> cold temperatures will dominate through March and into April, though \u201cvery warm weather over the eastern U.S. will surge north at times and bring tastes of pleasant spring weather.\u201d Above-normal precipitation might allow for an extended ski season, but there is ice and rain the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The weather agency is hedging its bets on May, saying there are \u201cstrongly conflicting signals,\u201d but Quebec could jump right from a testy spring into an early summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meanwhile back in the depths of winter, Montrealers can expect flurries to end near noon Thursday, but the clouds aren\u2019t going anywhere. There will be a high of minus-4 C with an afternoon wind chill of minus-10 C. Overnight, expect more flurries with a low of minus-11 C and a wind chill of minus-16 C. Clouds and flurries will stick around through Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are 22 days till spring, but the The Weather Network is getting a head start with its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,175588,200212,200213,2338,200214,200215,63788],"class_list":["post-500995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cold-temperatures","tag-days-till-spring","tag-lachine-canal","tag-montreal","tag-old-montreal","tag-pleasant-spring-weather","tag-the-weather-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500995","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=500995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}