Montrealers should prepare for a hotter-than-normal summer, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada\u2019s (ECCC) seasonal outlook released Friday.<\/p>\n
The forecast indicates above-average temperatures are likely across much of Canada, including Southern Quebec. Environment Canada noted that Canada\u2019s average summer temperature has increased by about 1.65 C since 1948.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, you\u2019ve got to expect heat and humidity periods, which we often see in Montreal during the summer season,\u201d Jennifer Smith, a national warning preparedness meteorologist with ECCC, said during a briefing with the media on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Smith said severe thunderstorms are among the main weather hazards Montrealers should be aware of this summer, noting much of the region\u2019s warm season precipitation comes from thunderstorm activity.<\/p>\n
The outlook is similar to that of 2025, when ECCC forecast a warmer-than-average summer for much of the country in 2025. Montreal later experienced multiple heat waves, with temperatures reaching 35.1 C during an August heat wave and the city\u2019s public health reported 8 heat-related deaths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montrealers should prepare for a hotter-than-normal summer, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada\u2019s (ECCC) seasonal outlook released…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":["post-479075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}