EMS FLT MAKES BELOW MINS APCH. BREAKS OUT ABOVE MDA WITH ESTIMATED VIS AT MINS.

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THIS FLT ORIGINATED AT FORT LAUDERDALE EXECUTIVE ARPT AS A LIFE GUARD FLT (STROKE PATIENT) BEING TRANSPORTED TO SHERBROOKE; CANADA. PRIOR TO THE FLT WE TRIED TO OBTAIN WX AT SHERBROOKE; BUT THEY WERE NOT RPTING; INSTEAD WE RECEIVED WX RPT FROM MONTREAL; THEY WERE RPTING 800 OVC AND 4 MI WITH SNOW SHOWERS. ENRTE TO SHERBROOKE WE WERE ABLE TO GET CURRENT WX FROM ISLIP RADIO (APPROX 30 MINS FROM DEST) THEY RPTED 12 SCT 80 OVC 6 MI VISIBILITY. WITH THIS GOOD NEWS WE CONTINUED AHEAD WITH CONFIDENCE OF GOOD WX AT OUR DEST. WHEN MONTREAL APCH HANDED US OFF TO SHERBROOKE FSS ADVISORY THEY INDICTED WX WAS 800 OVC AND 1 1/2 MI VISIBILITY. REALIZING THAT CATEGORY 'C' REQUIRES 2 MI VISIBILITY I CONTINUED THE APCH. ABOUT 200 FT ABOVE MDA WE MADE GND CONTACT AND EST 2 + STATUE MIL FLT VISIBILITY WE CIRCLED AND LANDED ON RWY 14. THE PRIMARY REASON FOR THIS RPT IS TO INDICATE THAT WHEN OPERATING UNDER LIFE GUARD FLTS (STROKE PATIENT) SUB ZERO WX CONDITIONS; AND PRE ARRANGED CONDITION (I.E AMBULANCE IS MEETING ACFT AT A SPECIFIC PLACE AND TIME.) I FEEL IT WAS NECESSARY FOR ME AS THE CAPT TO CONTINUE TO MEET THE OBJECTIVE THAT WAS SET. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR STATES WX CONDITIONS AND PATIENT NEEDS WERE DETERMINING FACTORS IN HIS DECISION TO CONTINUE AND TRY THE APCH. TEMPS WERE SO LOW THAT SURVIVAL AT AN ALTERNATE ARPT WOULD HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT. PATIENT NEEDED MEDICAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS AVAILABLE IN ACFT. COULD ONLY KEEP ENGS RUNNING FOR LIMITED TIME ON GND FOR WARMTH; WHILE AMBULANCE WAS REPOSITIONING. PATIENT COULD NOT BE MOVED INSIDE WITHOUT PROPER EQUIP. THUS RPTR MADE THE CHOICE HE DID. NEVER FELT THERE WAS ANY SAFETY FACTORS.