Some Montrealers may have been dismayed to see Environment Canada's special weather statement for the snow headed our way tomorrow and Saturday.
In the forecast are between five and ten centimeters of the dreaded white stuff. However, Environment Canada meteorologist Marie-Eve Giguere says temperatures will be mild so the snow will be wet and might not hang around for long.
"The impact of this snowfall is really going to be as it falls and the bulk of it will fall Friday evening and in the overnight hours until Saturday morning. So that's going to be the worst, when the road conditions could be tricky," she says. "Anyone planning to hit the road between Ottawa and Montreal, and the U.S. border to the south, towards Lake Champlain, this is really the area that is going to be affected.
Giguere adds April snowfalls are not unheard of in Montreal.
"Normally we'd get between 10 and 15 centimeters of snow in April so it is not unusual to have a snowfall this time of year."