Montreal weather: The switch has flipped to soup and ramen mode

Showers over Montreal will continue throughout the day and overnight.

Showers over Montreal will continue throughout the day and overnight.

Expect a high of 10 C during the day, with a UV index of 2, or low. At night, a low of 2 C.

Meanwhile in monster pumpkins

People wave from behind a giant pumpkin.
Travis Gienger, of Anoka, Minn., second from right, celebrates with his daughter Lily, 3, after his pumpkin weighed in at 2,471 pounds to win at the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, Calif., Oct. 14, 2024.Photo by Jeff Chiu /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A Minnesota horticulture teacher remained the reigning champion Monday of an annual pumpkin-weighing contest in Northern California where his massive gourds have won the top prize four years in a row.

Travis Gienger beat his closest competitor by 2.7 kilograms to clinch the victory at the 51st World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, south of San Francisco.

His winning gourd came in at 1,121 kg (2,471 pounds), falling short of the world record he set last year with a pumpkin weighing 1,247 kg.

Gienger, 44, said that as he has done in the past, he focused on having healthy soil and well-fed plants but that a cold fall with record-breaking rain likely impacted his pumpkin’s growth.

Gienger and his family drove his gargantuan gourd for 35 hours to California.

He said the giant pumpkin’s next stop will be in Southern California, where a team of professional carvers will do a 3D carve on it at a Halloween event.

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