{"id":215430,"date":"2026-01-03T21:50:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215430\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:50:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:50:21","slug":"freezing-rain-expected-in-montreal-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215430\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing rain expected in Montreal on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Greater Montreal area could see a prolonged period of freezing rain on Monday, with potentially hazardous conditions developing across much of southern Quebec.<\/p>\n

Freezing rain \u2014 possibly mixed with ice pellets \u2014 may begin overnight Sunday and continue through the end of the day Monday, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).<\/p>\n

\u201cThis freezing rain and ice pellet event is associated with the passage of an intense low-pressure system through the Great Lakes region,\u201d ECCC said in its warning on Friday. <\/p>\n

The agency updated its warning to an orange-level alert on Saturday, noting ice accretion amounts of five to 15 millimetres\u00a0are expected to accumulate.<\/p>\n

Under ECCC’s new alert system, an orange code means severe weather is likely to cause significant damage or disruption with impacts that are major, widespread or may last a few days. <\/p>\n

The weather agency says orange alerts are not common.<\/p>\n

In addition to Greater Montreal, areas at risk include the Outaouais, the Laurentides, Lanaudi\u00e8re, Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie, and the Eastern Townships.<\/p>\n

ECCC is urging residents to reconsider non-essential travel during this period, as ice buildup could make road conditions dangerous. Ice accretion may also lead to broken tree branches, with prolonged outages likely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-215430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}