Big snow: how much and when
TVA is listing out the expected time frame for the heaviest snowfall moments Wednesday night into Thursday morning.
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Ian 18:28 on 2025-02-12 Permalink
Emilie Brassard has such a great accent! up to 40, wow… even 20 would be impressive. Attache tes tuques!
dhomas 19:23 on 2025-02-12 Permalink
The EMSB has already officially cancelled all classes tomorrow.
dhomas 19:28 on 2025-02-12 Permalink
And I see that the CSSDM has, as well.
steph 19:47 on 2025-02-12 Permalink
Is that really lots of snow? I guess I`ll recalibrate my judgement by thursday noon, but in my mind anything less than 50cm isn`t worth the drama.
Ian 20:21 on 2025-02-12 Permalink
You’re one of those people that goes on a dep run in shorts when it’s -25, aren’t you.
CE 00:24 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
Anything under 30cm has always felt like a light storm to me. I feel like the weather forecasts have gotten a lot more sensationalist over the years and issue warnings for almost any amount of snow.
DeWolf 01:02 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
I was curious to know when the last time Montreal had a really big snowstorm and it’s been awhile. We haven’t had more than 23cm in a single day since 2018.
And the record snowfall in a single day was 46.5cm in 1889. The legendary storm of 1971 dumped 47cm over three days (43 on just one of those days).
If Steph thinks anything under 50 isn’t worth the drama then we’ve never actually had a storm worth fussing about
mare 01:42 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
The moment the chenillettes can’t pass anymore it goes fast. It makes for very homey situations the day after the storm when you and your neighbours dig out the sidewalk, and not cars. It’s been a while since that has happened.
walkerp 07:22 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
The CSDM announced school closures yesterday around 7 before the snow even started!
The media hype and the institutional reflex to that hype is just getting worse and worse. Early still, but so far not tons of accumulation and from what I can tell from the radar the system is already half way across Montreal.
Kate 10:09 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
DeWolf, the 1971 storm was the grand finale to a season of heavy snow, so that it piled onto to an already massive snowpack. It was also very windy.
I moved to Villeray in 2005. I’ve had to excavate my front steps a few times since then. I think it was in 2012 that we had a snowfall that exceeded 43 cm, but it didn’t have the other features of the 1971 storm so it hasn’t gone down in history.
…Yes! This was the late December 2012 storm. Various media cited 45 to 50 cm in that one.
Nicholas 11:53 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
December 27, 2012 was 45.6 cm in one calendar day. And a record setting season.
Kate 12:16 on 2025-02-13 Permalink
Nicholas, I think we both posted here (I updated my comment and you added one) at the same time.
What I mostly remember from that 2012 storm was that the sidewalks on my block were neglected until well after the new year. They were like goat tracks for days. (They’ve never been overlooked like that since.)
Nicholas 10:52 on 2025-02-14 Permalink
Kate, yes the update I did not see when I posted. I remember the storm because I went to work (easy five minute walk) and basically no one showed up, employees or the public, and also I was flying out that night on an eventful trip and was on the bus to the airport when I realized I forgot my passport (but the flight was so delayed I still made it with plenty of time). I remember media saying we had beaten the single day record, but maybe that was revised once they got the official number.