After what has felt like an unusually lengthy, gray, cool spring, Montreal is lastly about to catch a break within the weather division.
A major warm-up is on the best way, and the timing is fairly best with the Victoria Day long weekend falling proper in the midst of it. Temperatures will climb steadily over the subsequent a number of days earlier than peaking at one thing that feels genuinely summer-like by Tuesday.
Environment Canada’s latest forecast has Saturday coming in sunny at 23°C, although clouds roll in round noon and winds might gust as much as 50 km/h. The UV index hits 8, rated “very excessive,” so sunscreen is value enthusiastic about when you’re spending the afternoon exterior. Sunday is cleaner: sunny and 23°C with none of Saturday’s bluster. Monday ticks as much as 25°C below clear skies, after which Tuesday lands at 29°C.
That is the place it begins to really feel correctly sizzling. MétéoMédia is placing the feels-like temperature as excessive as 33°C in Montreal on Tuesday as soon as humidity will get factored in, pushed by a ridge of excessive stress pushing heat air throughout the south of the province. Meteorologist Alexandra Giroux famous that for areas on the sting of the nice and cozy air mass, sunshine would be the deciding consider how excessive temperatures truly climb.
To place Tuesday’s forecast in some context: the warmest day recorded anyplace in Quebec in 2026 to this point was April 18, when Ormstown reached 26.8°C. Tuesday ought to clear that simply.
The warmth will not final indefinitely, although. A 60% likelihood of showers arrives Tuesday evening and carries into Wednesday, which is available in at 25°C however with a soggy outlook.
Nonetheless, just a few legit summer time days constructed round an extended weekend in mid-Might is a fairly whole lot.