Parts of Ontario hit by weekend storm bracing for even more snow

Environment Canada has issued a upwind advisory for parts of Ontario, saying immoderate areas successful cottage state could get different important burst of snow Wednesday aft last weekend’s blizzard that downed trees and powerfulness lines and near hundreds of drivers stranded.

The bureau said Wednesday greeting that Huntsville could spot up to 14 centimetres of snowfall accumulation portion Bracebridge, Gravenhurst and bluish Kawartha Lakes could get up to 10 centimetres done the evening.

The advisory comes aft a snowstorm successful the portion forced a impermanent closure of Highway 11 betwixt Orillia and Huntsville implicit the weekend. Nearby Gravenhurst had declared a authorities of exigency aft it was buried nether much than a metre of snow.

Provincial constabulary said successful a connection that though Highway 11 has reopened, the unit is urging the nationalist to enactment alert arsenic much snowfall is expected successful the Huntsville area.

Environment Canada has besides issued a bid of upwind alerts successful immoderate areas on the shores of Lake Superior, Lake Huron and Lake Ontario. Snow squall warnings are successful effect successful regions including Sault Ste. Marie and Belleville, which could spot snowfall accumulations of up to 25 centimetres, the bureau said.

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The bureau warned that snowfall squalls tin origin upwind conditions to vary, and visibility tin abruptly beryllium reduced to “near zero” astatine times. It added that radical should see postponing non-essential question until conditions improve.

In eastern Ontario, Environment Canada said the Ottawa country tin expect snowfall accumulations adjacent 10 centimetres done Thursday morning.

In southern Ontario, the bureau said up to 5 centimetres of snowfall accumulation is imaginable successful immoderate areas, with Toronto getting its archetypal snowfall of the winter.

The upwind bureau said the advisory is successful effect for areas including the Greater Toronto Area, Hamilton and Niagara Region.

It said visibility could beryllium reduced astatine times, with perchance “hazardous” driving conditions and a “significant impact” connected rush-hour postulation successful municipality areas earlier the snowfall tapers disconnected successful the evening.