1998: five days of freezing rain, January 5-9 inclusive
2023: 13 hours of freezing rain in total. From 11 a.m. to midnight, the Environment Canada station at Montréal-Trudeau airport recorded between 0.3 and 4.6 mm of precipitation per hour, except between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. and between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. there were none, all categories combined
1998: 109.1 mm in Acton Vale (between 88.5 and 98.5 mm in Montreal)
2023: 30 to 35 mm in the Montreal area and almost 40 mm in some places, says Simon Legault, Environment Canada meteorologist
1998: up to 1.4 million on Friday, January 9
2023: 1.1 million on Thursday April 6 in the morning
1998: Montérégie (black triangle of Saint-Hyacinthe–Granby–Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu), Outaouais, Beauce, Montreal, Centre-du-Québec (Drummondville), Eastern Ontario, New Brunswick, State of New york
2023: Montreal, Montérégie, Outaouais, Laurentians
1998: 35 days
2023: 3 days for 75 to 80% of customers, estimated Hydro-Québec on Thursday
1998: The Champlain, Victoria and Jacques-Cartier bridges are temporarily closed on Friday, January 9 due to falling chunks of ice; the Mercier bridge in turn closes on Saturday, January 10
2023: the Samuel-De Champlain, Victoria and Jacques-Cartier bridges are temporarily closed on Thursday, April 6 due to falling chunks of ice
1998: 30
2023: 1
