/newsroom/taxonomy/term/13179/all en /newsroom/channels/news/expert-heat-waves-linked-climate-change-canadas-new-tool-357951 <p><!-- x-tinymce/html -->The Greater Montreal area is under a heat warning Monday as a warm and humid air mass could lead to a humidex value of 40. Environment and Climate Change Canada recently released the first results from its rapid extreme weather event attribution system, showing that human-caused climate change significantly increased the likelihood of recent heat waves in Quebec, Eastern Ontario, and Atlantic Canada​.</p> Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:10:10 +0000 keila.depape@mcgill.ca 312179 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-quebec-summer-forecast-calls-heat-humidity-and-severe-thunderstorms-339717 <p>A hot, "unstable and sticky" summer awaits Quebecers, according to The Weather Network, which predicts periods of abundant heat, often followed by severe thunderstorms. This will be the "fifth consecutive summer where temperatures will be above seasonal normals, which has never happened since we started compiling data" in 1942, according to André Monette, chief meteorologist at The Weather Network. (<a href="https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-summer-forecast-calls-for-heat-humidity-and-severe-thunderstorms-1.5925670" target="_blank">CTV News</a>)</p> Tue, 31 May 2022 18:50:52 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 288167 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/experts-hot-weather-and-heat-waves-322392 <p>Environment Canada issued a special weather statement for the Montreal area, warning that temperatures are forecasted to reach between 30 and 33 C this week. (<a href="https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/montreal-to-get-first-taste-of-real-summer-heat-as-temps-forecasted-to-top-30-1.4952494">CTV News</a>)</p> <p>Here are some experts from Ï㽶ÊÓƵ that can provide comment on this issue:</p> <p><b><a href="/infect-diseases/division">Leighanne Parkes</a>, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases</b></p> Wed, 27 May 2020 14:02:41 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 213092 at /newsroom