****0000001784**** WOCN10 CWUL 271935 SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR QUEBEC UPDATED BY ENVIRONMENT CANADA AT 3:35 P.M. EDT THURSDAY 27 MARCH 2025. --------------------------------------------------------------------- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR: METRO MONTREAL - LAVAL VAUDREUIL - SOULANGES - HUNTINGDON SAINT-HYACINTHE - ACTON VALE AREA VERCHERES - BELOEIL AREA SAINT-JEAN - MARIEVILLE AREA LACOLLE AREA LACHUTE - SAINT-JEROME UPPER GATINEAU - LIEVRE - PAPINEAU PONTIAC TEMISCAMINGUE GRANBY - WATERLOO AREA BROME-MISSISQUOI AREA MONT-ORFORD - LAKE MEMPHREMAGOG AREA SHERBROOKE AREA COATICOOK AREA COOKSHIRE AREA. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ==DISCUSSION== SNOW OVER SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN QUEBEC ON SATURDAY A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MAY BRING SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL AMOUNTS IN A SWATH OF AREAS STRETCHING FROM THE TEMISCAMINGUE REGION TO THE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS AND INCLUDING MONTREAL FROM FRIDAY EVENING TO MIDDAY SATURDAY. SNOW COULD CHANGE OVER TO ICE PELLETS AT TIMES, WHICH WOULD GIVE REDUCED SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS. PRECIPITATION MAY ALSO FALL AS FREEZING RAIN NEAR THE US BORDER ON SATURDAY. THERE IS STILL UNCERTAINTY REGARDING THE TRACK OF THIS LOW. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OVER THE PROVINCE OF QUEBEC WILL VARY DEPENDING ON THIS TRACK. MEANWHILE, WE ARE MONITORING A SECOND SYSTEM WHICH COULD BRING FREEZING RAIN ON SUNDAY. PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR ALERTS AND FORECASTS ISSUED BY ENVIRONMENT CANADA. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER, SEND AN EMAIL TO QCSTORM(AT)EC.GC.CA OR POST REPORTS ON X USING (HASH)QCSTORM. HTTP://WEATHER.GC.CA END/QSPC