Montreal Weather: Remember the Year We All Learned to Spell Millennium

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The only mistake we were concerned about that New Year’s Eve was the year 2000.

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Montreal Gazette

Teeter Tot's preschoolers (left to right) David Milton, Julian Martinez, Anathony Falgioni and Mariana Alonso prepare to help bury a time capsule before the turn of the millennium outside the Côte-St-Luc recreation building.
Teeter Tot’s preschoolers (left to right) David Milton, Julian Martinez, Anathony Falgioni and Mariana Alonso prepare to help bury a time capsule before the turn of the millennium outside the Côte-St-Luc recreation building. Photo by John Mahoney /Montreal Gazette

In the dark days of 1999, people would set their clocks by asking someone the time or waiting for the long beep on the radio.

“In the rush to declare a slick and squeaky baby the first baby born in 2000, who can tell which clock is correct unless they are all set to exactly the same time?” Anne Sutherland of the Montreal Gazette wrote on December 31, 1999. “Unless hospitals synchronize their clocks with Greenwich Mean Time, there may be large discrepancies in the declaration of the first baby born in 2000 on the island of Montreal.” .

Okay, your smartphone will accurately inform you when we move on to 2022. We hope the first baby after midnight has a big birthday.

Fast forward to 2021: Environment Canada says there will be periods of light snow with a maximum of minus-2 C. Wind chill near minus-8.

In the evening: Periods of light snow, minimum of -2 C.

A special weather statement warns of a “mixed rainfall” next Saturday. Environment Canada says regions north and west of the storm’s path could receive significant amounts of snowfall, while there could be rain further south. Regions along the St. Lawrence River can expect freezing rains.

It should be illegal to yell “Y2K” in a saturated economy.— Larry Wall

Reference-montrealgazette.com

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