A snowy day in Barrie / File photograph
“Winter has arrived,” OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt stated Wednesday.
Surroundings Canada has issued a snow squall warning for the Barrie and Collingwood areas, whereas a watch is in impact for the Orillia and Midland areas.
Forecasters say within the wake of a chilly entrance, native snow squalls will hearth up in a single day and proceed till Thursday evening, with the Collingwood and Meaford areas anticipated to obtain the heaviest snowfall quantities. Domestically, some locations might get 15 to 30 cm.
Wind gusts to 70 km/h will trigger localized blowing snow.
Associated: Keep up to date by way of our Climate & Storm Watch web page.
The climate system that crossed southern Ontario on Wednesday didn’t drop lots of snow, however there was sufficient to make for some tough travelling.
The excellent news for Muskoka is the squall exercise is anticipated to overlook the realm by way of Thursday whereas squalls round Mactier and Parry Sound will fizzle Wednesday night when the wind shifts to the northwest.
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Schmidt says if you’re venturing out on the roads, take into consideration packing an emergency package and maintain further provides useful like a jacket, gloves, boots, and a charged cellular phone.
“And when you’re at residence, ensuring you may have necessities can also be crucial,” defined Schmidt. “There might be lack of energy and we do not know the way lengthy it should take to get energy restored. Crews are nonetheless engaged on restoring energy from final weekend’s energy outage and climate occasion.”
Additionally over the weekend and into this week, a tractor-trailer crash on Freeway 11 closed each instructions from Orillia to Huntsville for days. Huntsville OPP stated in a launch this morning that emergency crews are nonetheless working to clear snow on secondary roads off Freeway 11, and are making ready for extra snowfall in Huntsville and Lake of Bays Township.
Schmidt added that “the much less visitors will get on the market, the simpler it’s for them to keep up and sustain with the snow clearing. So please, keep residence when you can.”
Officers say if you’re in a life-threatening scenario, name 9-1-1, and get in touch with the OPP non-emergency quantity, 1-888-310-1122, for all different issues.
With recordsdata from The Canadian Press
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