Prepare for a weather roller-coaster this week

The deep freeze has passed, but we’re not out of the woods yet.

The GTA was due for several centimetres of snow Sunday night into Monday and as the mercury reaches subzero temperatures, things could get slushy: 2-4 cm of snow was expected Sunday evening and another 2-4 may fall throughout Monday, said Environment Canada meteorologist Glenn Robinson.

The temperature will rise to 0 C around noon, Robinson said, which may make the roads wet and create puddles on the sidewalk. The snow won’t come down particularly heavily, Robinson predicts, so the morning rush hour should be more or less a “typical winter commute.”

“If it was November, it would be a nightmare,” he said, but because most GTA residents are accustomed to driving in the snow by now and there is a lot of salt on the roads, it might be messy but shouldn’t be too bad.

Tuesday will have a high of 0 C, though the overnight low will dip back down to -9 C.

Wednesday’s weather will hover around the freezing mark at 1 C with a 40 to 60 per cent chance of a mix of rain and snow throughout the day.

Thursday is when the real fun starts — it might feel like summer as a high of 4 C and rain is expected.

Enjoy the warmth while it lasts though, because the mercury is predicted to drop back down to -5 C by Friday.