(Montreal) Temperatures began to rise in eastern Canada on Saturday evening, thus beginning the end of the cold snap.
Extreme cold warnings have been lifted by Environment Canada for most parts of Quebec and the Maritime provinces.
Only parts of northern Quebec and Labrador will continue to experience very cold weather until Sunday morning. In western Labrador, temperatures approaching the equivalent of -50°C with wind chill persist. Nunavik will experience feelings of -52 until Monday.
In Quebec, extreme wind chill values reached -42 in Gatineau, -43 in Montreal and -48 in Quebec and Sherbrooke on Friday or Saturday.
Minimum temperature records recorded were broken on Friday in several sectors, notably in the Charlevoix massif with -36.1 ° C, or a feeling of -52. The last lowest temperature was -33.9°C in 1962.
In Ottawa, a temperature of -33.1°C was recorded on Saturday, dethroning the old record of -30°C set in 1948. Several cities in Ontario have experienced similar records.
The situation is similar in the Maritimes, where, in New Brunswick, Moncton experienced a new record of -28.1 ° C and Saint John, -28.7 ° C, on Friday. In Halifax, Nova Scotia, -25.6°C was recorded on Friday, more than a degree below the record cold of 1971.