Montreal Gears Up for a Deep Freeze This Weekend
Montreal is heading into a seriously cold stretch, and it’s the kind of cold that makes you double-check whether you actually want to step outside. As the weekend approaches, the city is bracing for a frigid blast, with wind chills dropping to levels that will remind everyone that winter in Montreal doesn’t play around.
Right from Friday morning, it’s being felt. Temperatures sit around –7°C, but the wind makes it feel closer to –13°C by the afternoon. It’s the type of cold where even a short walk feels like an Arctic expedition. By later tonight, skies will go from partly cloudy to fully overcast, and temperatures will dip even further to around –9°C, with a wind chill pushing it down to a biting –14°C. Basically, if you’ve been holding off on pulling out your warmest coat, now’s the time.
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The weekend itself isn’t offering much relief. On Saturday, flurries are expected, and the day will start with another harsh wind chill of about –13°C before becoming slightly less punishing in the afternoon at around –7°C. Temperatures hover near –1°C, but it won’t feel that way. By Saturday night, clouds return with a 60% chance of more flurries, and the mercury falls to around –12°C.
Sunday brings sunshine, but don’t let that fool you. It stays cold, with a high near –9°C, and as night falls again, temperatures slip to about –13°C under cloudy periods. And looking beyond the weekend, it’s more of the same: a fully wintery pattern with daytime highs staying below freezing and a mix of sun, clouds, and light snow popping up through next week.
These colder temperatures are also shaping what’s happening around the city. The cold snap has led Montreal officials to open a new temporary emergency shelter downtown along with two additional warming centres to support vulnerable residents. With temperatures plunging this week across southern Quebec, the need for safe, heated spaces has become a priority.
Meanwhile, transit and political headlines continue unfolding despite the weather. REM service was temporarily suspended Friday morning between Bois-Franc and Gare Centrale due to a technical problem. On the political front, internal turmoil continues within the Quebec Liberal Party as Chomedey MNA Sona Lakhoyan Olivier has been removed from caucus amid an ethics investigation. And the STM remains in a standoff with its maintenance workers’ union over holiday staffing during their ongoing strike.
So as Montreal moves into a very chilly weekend, people are bundling up, the city is adjusting, and winter is making its presence known in that unmistakable Montreal way—cold, windy, snowy, and impossible to ignore. Stay warm out there.
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