April 5, 2024 – Montreal
Close to 50,000 residents are still without power today, following snow storm
Close to 50,000 residents are still without power across Quebec today, following a snow storm that blanketed the city in more than twenty centimeters of snow – and that number increased to close to thirty centimeters in the downtown Montreal core.
“In several places, power lines are down due to strong gusts of wind or the weight of broken tree branches,” Hydro-Quebec says. “We are mobilizing all available crews to work on restoring service as quickly as possible.”
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“For public safety, it is crucial that people not approach power lines,” the Crown corporation stresses. “If you see electrical wires on the ground, please do not approach the area and call 911 to have the area secured.”
At the height of the outages, Hydro-Quebec says 600,000 customers were affected. The public utility company says it has about 1,200 people on the ground working to restore power.
Luckily, temperatures are expected to rise later today, when Montreal is expected to reach a high of 4 degrees – a trend that is supposed to continue over the next few days, with highs of 7 degrees on Saturday and 10 degrees on Sunday. Meaning that while winter may have had one last trick up its sleeve – Spring most certainly is still in the air.
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Montreal enjoyed the second warmest winter in recorded history in 2024, according to records that began being kept in 1871, an Environment Canada meteorologist said.
In fact, this most recent winter marked an important snowfall deficit as well as temperatures well above average, Environment Canada reported in early January – with this being the most significant snowfall to hit the city this year.
