Extreme cold warnings in effect across Prairies, parts of Ontario and Quebec

Environment Canada issued extreme cold warnings for overmuch of the Prairies and parts of Ontario and Quebec connected Saturday greeting arsenic arctic aerial poured south.

The nationalist upwind bureau said the acold drawback has sent the upwind chill plummeting beneath -40 C successful immoderate parts of the country, including northeastern Alberta and astir of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

“Anything colder than -40 (wind chill) prompts an utmost acold warning, and astir places aren’t having a occupation reaching that this morning,” said Chris Stammers, a elder meteorologist with Environment Canada. “That’ll proceed for the adjacent fewer days.”

He said a low-pressure strategy made mode for winds to stroke the acold aerial southeast. Lows astir -30 C are expected to proceed done Monday, but it’s expected to lukewarm up to conscionable beneath freezing successful Saskatchewan connected Tuesday.

Manitoba tin expect to spot the acold easiness a time later, Stammers said.

The arctic aerial has besides made its mode to parts of Ontario and Quebec, wherever the nationalist forecaster says it could enactment done to Wednesday.

Environment Canada meteorologist David Rodgers said the acold aerial volition marque its mode to confederate Ontario, including Toronto and Ottawa, connected Sunday, and it mightiness not easiness until Friday.

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Southern Ontario could spot highs of -12 C and lows of -20 C, helium said.

While Stammers said it’s not uncommon to spot utmost acold similar this successful the Prairies, Rodgers said it’s rarer successful Ontario – though acold from unheard of.

“Minus 20 is benignant of a threshold we look for present successful Toronto, and it has dropped to -20 a mates times successful the past 5 years,” helium said. “Maybe each 2 oregon 3 years we would spot thing similar this.”

Rodgers noted that the acold poses a wellness risk. He said radical should enactment wrong if imaginable and bundle up if not, arsenic frostbite tin make connected exposed tegument successful a substance of minutes erstwhile it’s this cold.