The City of Montreal is getting set to launch another snow removal operation on Monday evening, following the storm which dumped 15.8 centimetres on the city from midnight to midnight on Sunday.
Crews will start hauling snow away at 7:00 p.m., giving everyone plenty of time to find somewhere safe to park their cars so they don't get towed away.
As usually happens, the city will make available free parking spaces in lots around town for the duration of the operation. To find out where they are, and for a real-time map of the operation's progress, visit the city's dedicated snow removal page here.
It will be all hands on deck to complete this operation, which city spokesperson Philippe Sabourin says should be complete by the end of the week.
"We're going to have an army of 3,000 employees and 2,200 trucks on the road to complete the operation," Sabourin said.
While Sunday's storm didn't set a record, you might be excused if it felt like it did. The storm was accompanied by strong winds and bitter cold — something which doesn't often happen in this city.
The temprature on Sunday didn't get any warmer than -15.8 degrees, while windchill values didn't climb above -30 until late in the afternoon.
To find a similar snowstorm that combined lots of snow and bitter cold, you'd have to go back nearly a century, to Jan. 16, 1920. On that day, more than 30 centimetres of snow fell on the city (what people called a foot of snow back then), while the daytime high was -19 degrees (a little bit below zero on the Fahrenheit scale).
Meanwhile, Montrealers can expect another cold day on Tuesday before a noticeable warming trend begins.
Tuesday will see sunshine and a high of -14, with windchill values getting closes to -30, but on Wednesday, temperatures will climb back up to the freezing mark — albeit with more snow, or possibly even rain.
Thursday's high is expected to get up to -2 degrees, with a chance of some flurries, before temperatures fall back into the minus-double digits for the weekend.
CJAD 800's James Foster contributed to this report.