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Strong winds with gusts up to 90 km/h; Blizzard conditions. The federal weather agency is already urging people to reconsider their holiday travel plans. Even ...

Those areas will still likely be experiencing heavy falling snow and gusting winds, keeping travel conditions difficult. Steven Flisfeder, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, told CBC Toronto the conditions will make for difficult driving. Until then, "take this time ahead of the storm to prepare for the conditions that will be coming," Flisfeder said. Flisfeder said Environment Canada is confident this storm will be "much more intense" — regardless of how much snow and rain stay on the ground — than the last storm system that rolled through was. Brace yourself for a "major" winter storm to hit in the days leading into the holiday weekend, Environment Canada is warning. The latest on the winter storm heading for Toronto and the GTA ahead of major holiday travel days

Travellers are being warned to prepare for a “major winter storm” which is set to hit Toronto, along with much of Ontario and Quebec on Thursday and last ...

Are they going to feed us out of here in dribs and drabs and take days and days to get out? Temperatures Friday night into the weekend will likely be the coldest of the season to date,” the agency said. The temperature is then expected to remain below the freezing mark all the way through Boxing Day on Monday, hovering between -10 C and -4 C. “While there is high confidence in a high impact winter storm, the details regarding wind speeds, precipitation types and amounts remain uncertain at this time,” the agency’s statement said. “It's not going to be the most snow — we’re not in the sweet spot for snow — but even five to 10 centimeters with wind gusts at 90 kilometres per hour is going to be ridiculously treacherous out there on the road. Temperatures are expected to plummet on Friday leading to a potential flash freeze for locations that receive rainfall,” Environment Canada said in a special weather statement Wednesday.

Freezing rain, extreme cold and blowing snow are expected in Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada this weekend during the busiest travel period of the year.

[on Wednesday, according to Environment Canada](https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/index_e.html?prov=mb). [double snowstorm that dropped upwards of 30 centimetres of snow](https://bc.ctvnews.ca/consider-postponing-non-essential-travel-traffic-chaos-as-b-c-hit-with-double-the-forecasted-snow-1.6202374) earlier this week to the lower mainland. [MORE Climate News](https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment) The New York Yankees named outfielder Aaron Judge as the 16th captain in franchise history on Wednesday. [S&P/TSX composite up 1.4 per cent, U.S. Ahead of that report being made public, here's what the committee has heard from participants in the study. As Christmas Day approaches, many consumers are still in the midst of holiday shopping. "It's not the same storm (in B.C.), it's the same cold air," Dave Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada, told CTV News Channel on Tuesday night. "If this occurred in the middle of January we wouldn't be talking about it but because it's happening now it’s going to have an incredible impact," Phillips said. "But you can still get misery when you combine the fact that you're going to have rain and snow, powerful winds and blowing snow on top of that." Storm intensity is measured by central pressure, and climatologists coined the term "bomb cyclone" or "weather bomb" to describe rapidly dropping pressure, creating a shift in storm systems. Atlantic Canada is preparing for the storm system Sunday.