Winter storm to hit large swath of southern Ontario with 40 cm possible

A ample portion of confederate Ontario, including the Greater Toronto Area, is expected to get deed with important snowfall connected Wednesday day that volition bring anyplace from 15 to 40 cm of snow.

Environment Canada has upgraded its upwind alert from a peculiar upwind connection to either a snowfall informing oregon a wintertime tempest informing stretching from Toronto to Sarnia, to northbound of Barrie to North Bay, and eastbound to Ottawa.

According to the snowfall alert for Toronto, it is expected that the snowfall volition statesman precocious day with highest snowfall rates of 2 to 4 cm per hour. The full snowfall expected for Toronto is astir 15 cm.

“This snowfall volition interaction the evening commute. Snow whitethorn go mixed with crystal pellets precocious this evening and overnight for immoderate areas,” Environment Canada said. “Rapidly accumulating snowfall could marque question hard implicit immoderate locations.”

The snowfall is expected to taper disconnected by Thursday morning.

There is simply a hazard for freezing rainfall successful the Hamilton and Burlington area. Areas towards Ottawa are expected to spot up to 40 cm of snowfall and country successful and astir Barrie whitethorn spot betwixt 20 and 30 cm of snow, with a wintertime tempest informing successful spot successful these locations. Snowfall amounts could perchance transcend 5 cm an hour, the upwind bureau said.

Global News meteorologist Ross Hull said a Texas debased is coming for the Great Lakes and confederate Ontario, including the Greater Toronto Area, by Wednesday day astatine astir 4 p.m.

However, Hull said determination is capable acold aerial successful spot by Wednesday day for the strategy to bring snow, which could beryllium dense astatine times. He notes this could person a large interaction connected the Wednesday evening commute for anyone with question plans connected the roadworthy oregon by air.

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“Consider postponing non-essential question until conditions improve,” Environment Canada said successful its upwind alert. “There whitethorn beryllium a important interaction connected unreserved hr postulation successful municipality areas.”

This adjacent circular of snowfall comes days aft Toronto and parts of confederate Ontario got dumped with of up to 20 cm of snowfall successful immoderate areas connected Saturday nighttime into Sunday.

As well, Hull said models are showing different imaginable wintertime tempest emerging from the U.S. this upcoming weekend, which could bring much dense snowfall to the country connected Saturday into Sunday — making it 3 storms successful 1 week for confederate Ontario.