Snowfall amounts could range between 20 and 40 centimetres, starting Wednesday night and into late Thursday. Winter storm warnings are issued when several types of severe winter weather are forecast at once.

ECC has issued a winter storm warning in effect for the greater Montreal area, Montérégie, the Laurentians, Lanaudière, Outaouais and Mont-Laurier.

Several regions in Quebec are bracing for challenging travel conditions at the start of the week as a snow warning is in effect. Environment Canada is forecasting up to 10 centimetres (cm) of snow in areas including Greater Montreal on Monday.

While romance will be in the air this week in the lead up to St. Valentine’s Day on Friday, so will snow — lots of it, blowing everywhere all day Thursday and blanketing Montreal and much of the rest of the province under up to 35 cm of precipitation.