Winter storm

This Christmas season in Canada, there's a veritable buffet of weather warnings on the menu. A big storm in Ontario and Quebec, a messy winter mix in B.C., ...

And more than 4,600 flights within, into or out of the U.S. - Heavy rains are expected in the Atlantic provinces, with some high winds, storm surge or freezing rain in certain regions. - The weather continues to be frigid in parts of Yukon, Northwest Territories, northern B.C. Electrical utilities are warning residents to prepare for potential power outages, and airline departure boards at the Halifax Spokesperson Darrell Mercer said the 446 passengers won't be able to travel to Newfoundland until late Saturday night due to storm cancellations. Environment Canada is forecasting freezing rain, with the agency warning of icy accumulations of between five and 25 millimetres. She is expecting many to seek shelter in the GO Transit station or at a local bus terminal. WestJet proactively cancelled flights at airports in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. Ed Sanchuk with the Norfolk County OPP said in a video posted to Twitter. We want everyone to remain safe,'' provincial Transportation Minister Rob Fleming said at a news conference on Thursday. "It's scary when the storms come," she told CBC Hamilton on Friday morning. Highway sections — including Highway 401 from Tilbury to London — and rural roads are also closed in some areas.

Mayor John Tory says it may take city crews days to clean up a complex storm already hitting Toronto that will see rain, freezing rain, flash freezing, ...

“It will have a blade and it’ll have the salt spinners on the side and on the back as well so it will allow it to transition a lot quicker,” he said. “If we had done so it would have washed right into the sewers and sewer systems so it was literally ineffective to do that type of service,” Sferrazza said. “This is going to be a multi-day, multi-round event,” said Vincent Sferrazza, the City of Toronto’s director of operations and maintenance, alongside Tory at a press conference held Friday morning.

Power outages in Quebec and Ontario continue into Friday evening. “The very southwestern part of Ontario, the worst is gone,” said Peter Kimbell, a ...

The kit should have essential items, but also include “items that are unique to your own families’ needs,” such as baby items, medical prescriptions and pet food. We’ll have the latest news on weather alerts, travel cancellations and power outages. All WestJet flights in and out of Vancouver have also been cancelled until mid-afternoon Friday and travel out of Abbotsford, Victoria and Nanaimo has also been impacted. “I’ve only seen a couple of storms like this in the last 20 years.” All Air Canada flights in and out of Billy Bishop Airport on the Toronto Islands have been cancelled Friday. Northern Ontario as well as regions surrounding the GTA including Barrie, Niagara and Waterloo are expected to be hit with wind gusts up to 120 km/h. [60% of the U.S. One group of six travelling to Chicago sat in a circle on the ground, throwing cards on the floor during a game of euchre to pass time during a three-hour delay. Nearly two thirds of flights destined for Toronto’s Pearson International Airport had been cancelled as of 2:30 p.m., as had a third of flights leaving the airport. By 5 p.m., the number of Hydro-Québec customers without power had declined slightly to around 340,000, including more than 80,000 customers in the Quebec City area. BC Ferries said it may cancel its Friday afternoon and evening routes from the Victoria-area port to several Southern Gulf Islands and back again. Canadian airports ranked among the world’s most disrupted as of Friday afternoon, according to FlightAware.

A winter storm battering much of southern Ontario could seriously complicate your holiday travel plans. Environment Canada is urging everyone to avoid ...

Along with Toronto's Pearson Airport, WestJet said the cancellations will affect 140 flights across four airports in Ottawa, London, Waterloo and Montreal. Area is also closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic due to the winter weather. It has also issued a number of [alerts](https://www.ttc.ca/service-alerts) for multiple routes in the city. "We really are hoping for a Christmas miracle," he said. The cancellations begin at 9 a.m. - University Avenue and Dundas Street West, where roads are closed due to weather. Check ahead and give yourself extra travel time," said Aikins. Plowing will begin when the snow reaches: You should too," reads a tweet from the company. All travellers have been notified, it said. ET until the end of the day and the airline says a "restart" depends on weather conditions by Saturday. Salting starts as soon as the snow starts to stick to the ground.

Hundreds of thousands of people were left without power in Quebec and Ontario ahead of Christmas Eve as a major winter storm barrelled into the region, ...

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It could take several days to dig out from a major winter storm that has already closed schools across the GTA and upended holiday travel plans for some ...

“I don’t have reports of any serious injuries but as officers are responding to crashes more crashes are happening behind them as vehicles plow into stopped traffic.” We are urging the public that if anyone has to go out, please proceed with caution," Const. "That immediate area has been blocked off to pedestrians and vehicular traffic. The OPP also closed down Highway 402 in its entirety due to poor road conditions. Police said construction equipment had become dislodged and caused damage to the area. The weather has started and it is not having that big of an impact yet. "The blowing snow has meant that we've been having to clear the runways a lot. “People should be on notice with this storm, if it lives up to expectations, the clearing of snow will likely be a multi-day event,” Tory said. We anticipate that this will continue into next week, with the vast majority of the work happening today, tomorrow and into Sunday.” "The forecast has changed quite a bit. cities where a lot of flights “are just not getting out today.” “I encourage Torontonians to watch for updates from Environment Canada and to please be safe.

The weather agency predicted strong winds, heavy snowfall and possible flash freezing, issuing winter storm warnings for the vast majority of the two ...

“The wind and snow is blowing in and today is going to be a tough day for a lot of drivers,” said Sgt. Marine Atlantic said it didn’t want the vessel to be caught in the waters off Newfoundland when the storm started hitting the region. The airline said 300 “proactive” flight cancellations Friday were due to the expected bad weather. “Hopefully something works out and I will be able to go home in the next few days.” She said she received a notification during a layover in Hong Kong that the Vancouver-Toronto leg of her journey, scheduled for 8 a.m. In Montreal, Pauline Thieffry, an exchange student from Belgium who studies in Trois-Rivieres, Que., said she worried her flight to Brussels – scheduled for Friday evening – would be cancelled. “We spent a lot of time to get here and it will be really sad if we can’t make it to Vancouver to see my sister.” “I’ve only seen a couple of storms like this in the last 20 years.” “Please, if you don’t need to be on the roads, stay home, wait until the system passes, let the plows and salters do their job.” Hydro One, Ontario’s largest electricity utility, said roughly 70,000 customers in the province’s southern and eastern regions were without power, with more than 30,000 not expected to have their power restored before 11 p.m. The number of outages across Quebec rose steadily on Friday, with winds reaching 100 kilometres an hour in some parts of the province, snapping power lines and downing trees. Maxence Huard-Lefebvre, a spokesman for the utility, said about 1,000 workers across the province were repairing power lines.

A major winter storm is hitting Ontario and Quebec, causing flight cancellations, power outages and road closures. Bad weather is also expected in many ...

Interior have been closed due to the risk of falling ice. --- Here are the latest developments (all times Eastern): A major winter storm is hitting Ontario and Quebec, causing flight cancellations, power outages and road closures.

Environment Canada says a major winter storm is moving through the London, Ont., area Friday into Saturday.

[All schools are closed](https://london.ctvnews.ca/london-schools-closed-city-initiates-extreme-temperature-protocol-due-to-storm-1.6206189) in the region due to the conditions. That's the scenario an Airdrie couple faces. As fruitcake's popularity has grown, so have the traditions that go along with it. Need to up your bitters game before the 31st? A Montreal company is trying to change that. Wondering if you can put your compost out on Christmas Eve? to 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. For information on emergency plans and kits go to If visibility is reduced while driving, slow down, watch for tail lights ahead and be prepared to stop. Visibility will be suddenly reduced to near zero at times in heavy snow and blowing snow. Rapidly falling temperatures will be accompanied by snow and very strong winds which will result in widespread blowing snow.

Thousands of people are without power and numerous crashes have been reported in parts of southern Ontario as the province is hit by a large winter storm.

Please, if you don’t need to be on the roads, stay home.” Highway 401 is shut down in both directions in that area.” The areas expected to be the hardest hit — west of Lake Huron, in parts of cottage country, in the Kingston area and in parts of the Niagara Region — are under a blizzard warning, where lake-effect snow is expected worsen conditions. “The wind and snow is blowing in and today is going to be a tough day for a lot of drivers. In Dufferin and Perth counties, the OPP said all roads were closed due to the poor conditions. [‘Crippling blizzard’ expected in parts of southern Ontario, with other alerts issued elsewhere](https://globalnews.ca/news/9367219/southern-ontario-storm-forecast-warnings/)

Strong winds, freezing rain and heavy snowfall closed schools, cut power to homes and cancelled flights across Canada on Friday as a powerful winter storm ...

"The wind and snow is blowing in and today is going to be a tough day for a lot of drivers," Schmidt said in a video message posted on Twitter. Winter storms have increased in frequency and intensity over the past 70 years, according to the U.S. This is in part due to In Quebec, nearly 270,000 were without electricity on Friday afternoon. "We're seeing differing weather types that are all leading to different impacts ... Register for free to Reuters and know the full story

A major winter storm hitting Ontario and Quebec has caused widespread flight cancellations and school closures, and has knocked out power to hundreds of ...

The Toronto Transit Commission took out of service 41 bus stops in hilly areas that are difficult to navigate in snowy and icy conditions. We had restaurants; we had to cancel those. “We really are hoping for a Christmas miracle,” he said. “We had a hotel in Quebec booked; we had to cancel it. WestJet, Canada’s second largest airline, announced late Thursday that it was canceling flights at airports in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. Hydro One, Ontario’s largest electricity utility, said roughly 45,000 customers were without power as of 11 a.m.

The storm blew into Canada on Thursday night, leaving hundreds of thousands without power, and is expected to wreak havoc on the country into the holiday ...

Weather warnings were issued Thursday night for all of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, as the massive storm is expected to bring heavy rain and damaging winds mid-Friday into Saturday morning. More than 1,800 households had been left without power in New Brunswick, and over 4,100 have lost power in Nova Scotia as of 11:50 a.m. is also facing Environment Canada warnings about brutal winds and elevated water levels brought on by the storm. Wind gusts, it cautioned, could reach up to 90 km/h on the island. That flash freeze — that’s the time you don’t want to be out there.” The warning for southern Ontario describes “crippling blizzard conditions” that are expected from Friday morning into Saturday. The perfect storm of weather warnings has created extremely dangerous road conditions. So far, the Outaouais, Laurentians and Quebec City regions have been the hardest hit. In Manitoba, “extremely cold wind chill values near minus 40 are expected today,” a weather alert read. Hundreds of thousands of people across the country are facing power outages as of 3:30 p.m. So it’s going to be a difficult go.” Because crews just cannot get out in blizzard conditions, they can’t deal with the cold,” he said in an interview with AM640 Toronto, a radio station owned by Global News’ parent company Corus Entertainment, early Friday morning.

'Temperatures plunge rapidly below zero, roads freeze, icy conditions develop and bad stuff happens'

“The wind and snow is blowing in and today is going to be a tough day for a lot of drivers,” said Sgt. “Hopefully something works out and I will be able to go home in the next few days.” She said she received a notification during a layover in Hong Kong that the Vancouver-Toronto leg of her journey, scheduled for 8 a.m. “Please, if you don’t need to be on the roads, stay home, wait until the system passes, let the plows and salters do their job.” By 5 p.m., the number of Hydro-Québec customers without power had declined slightly to around 340,000, including more than 80,000 customers in the Quebec City area. But in parts of Quebec, he said, the worse may be yet to come.

'Temperatures plunge rapidly below zero, roads freeze, icy conditions develop and bad stuff happens'

“The wind and snow is blowing in and today is going to be a tough day for a lot of drivers,” said Sgt. “Hopefully something works out and I will be able to go home in the next few days.” She said she received a notification during a layover in Hong Kong that the Vancouver-Toronto leg of her journey, scheduled for 8 a.m. “Please, if you don’t need to be on the roads, stay home, wait until the system passes, let the plows and salters do their job.” By 5 p.m., the number of Hydro-Québec customers without power had declined slightly to around 340,000, including more than 80,000 customers in the Quebec City area. But in parts of Quebec, he said, the worse may be yet to come.