The clouds are going to win.
Montreal’s midweek showers will move in around noon, pushing aside any sunshine that was peeking through the clouds. Precipitation will fall off and on throughout Wednesday, then give way to sun sometime on Thursday.
Expect a high of 18 C during the day, with a UV index of 3, or moderate. At night, a low of 12 C.
Hurricane updates
Desperate residents of the storm-battered mountains of western North Carolina lined up for water and food, hunted for cellphone signals and slogged buckets from creeks to flush toilets days after Hurricane Helene’s remnants deluged the region. Emergency workers toiled around the clock to clear roads, restore power and phone service, and reach people stranded by the storm, which has a death toll of more than 150 people across the Southeast.
With rescue efforts completed in the state of Florida in the wake of Hurricane Helene, Gov. Ron DeSantis has deployed emergency resources to North Carolina and Tennessee, where officials are still searching for victims amid the mud and debris.
More than 40 trillion gallons of rain drenched the Southeast United States in the last week from Hurricane Helene and a run-of-the-mill rainstorm that sloshed in ahead of it — an unheard of amount of water that has stunned experts.
That’s enough to fill the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium 51,000 times. If it was concentrated just on the state of North Carolina that much water would be more than one metre deep. It’s enough to fill more than 60 million Olympic-size swimming pools.
Meanwhile, Kirk became a hurricane in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday. The storm could strengthen into a major hurricane by Thursday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. The storm was about 1,700 kilometres west of the Cabo Verde Island with maximum sustained winds of 120 km/h.
There were no coastal watches or warnings in effect, and the storm system was not yet deemed a threat to land.
