Hydro-Quebec says almost 400,000 homes are without power on Tuesday after a significant amount of snow fell across southern Quebec in the first early snowfall of the season.

According to the utility’s power outages board, as of mid-morning Tuesday, around 374,000 addresses out of 4.4 million in Quebec do not have power.

The majority of those customers are in Montreal and the surrounding areas.

Around 50,000 customers are without power in Montreal, another 107,000 in Monteregie, and almost 20,000 in Laval.

Environment Canada had issued a snowfall warning on Sunday for parts of southern and central Quebec, including Gatineau, Montreal, Quebec City and up towards Baie-Comeau.

It said a low-pressure system had been affecting Quebec since Sunday afternoon, bringing a “mixed bag of precipit

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