Montreal to get a wet and hot weekend, Quebec City may get freezing rain

After a cold February, the first weekend in March is set to be warm and wet, with freezing rain a possibility in Quebec City.

Montrealers are in for a warm, but gloomy, couple of days on the weekend.

The mercury will start at a low of 3 C on Friday night.

Those in the area can expect skies to be overcast.

For Friday into Saturday, Environment Canada has also issued a freezing rain warning for areas including Northern Mauricie, Quebec City, Charlevoix and Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean.

In the greater Montreal area, roughly 12 millimetres of rain is forecasted to begin by 2 a.m.

The damp weather could continue for Montrealers all day Saturday, as the temperature moves up to an above-seasonal high of 10 C.

More warm weather is expected Saturday night, with a low of 6 C.

By midday Sunday, the rain is forecast to clear.

Cloudy skies and a daytime high of 8 C will then drop to a nighttime low of 3 C.