TORONTO, Ont. – Environment Canada is warning of snow squalls in several regions in southern Ontario.
A warning is in effect for several areas, including Milton, Caledon, Vaughan, Richmond Hill and Markham.
The agency is warning motorists of near-zero visibility due to blowing snow and bursts of heavy snow Thursday night into Friday.
An arctic cold front arrived in southern Ontario and snow squalls have developed in the westerly flow off of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, the agency said.
According to the agency, snowfall could approach 15 to 20 centimetres in areas where squalls are constant.
The agency downgraded its snow squall warning for Toronto and parts of the Greater Toronto Area to a watch Thursday night.
Toronto and the GTA can expect heavy flurries that could form snow squalls overnight, the agency said.
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Left the north end of Brampton this morning and while it was blowing snow the roads were driveable. Hit Mississauga and everything turned to a sheet of ice and of course as always Mississauga never clear or salts their roads in a timely fashion. Buses were even having a hard time getting up the hills. Once I hit Etobicoke the road had been salted and it was easy driving the rest of the way. Not idea what the road conditions are going to be like driving home through Mississauga, but would like to think they have been cleared and salted by now.
Glad I don’t live in Mississauga and have to pay my property taxes their for no services.
Except for the 400 series highways, road clearing in Mississauga is a Region of Peel responsibility, so if you live in North Brampton and a portion of your tax bill goes to the Region of peel, we are both paying into the same pot. Mississauga and Brammpton do not have snow clearing or garbage pickup services, these are run by the Region.
Not True…..The roads didn’t ice because of flash freeze. The roads all dried out overnight with the strong winds. They froze because a little snow fell and cars compacted it into ice. I little snow sometimes is worse than a heavy dump.
The salters were out prior to the freeze but the rain washed it away and they couldn’t get back in time to re-salt the roads before the temperature dropped..It’s called a flash freeze for a reason. They did the best they could under these extreme conditions.
When I grow up, I would like to be a weather person. This is the ONLY job that you can be wrong every single time and still have a job!!!!!!
Joseph….I guess their Crystal ball was broken….Gheeze
There is a scary lot of drivers plying our roads these days. For example, we had plenty of warning about expecting snowy or icy roads. I was just on an ice covered road section one-half hour ago. The trailing drivers were tailgating and otherwise being plain ridiculous behind and around me. If they open their freezer door at home they can see frost. But on the damn road, in full bright sunlight, they cannot see that the pavement undr them has uniformally re-frozen into a surface resembling a curling rink!
It also bothers me that we all pay higher rates of insurance for these uncaring doughheads. Any traffic cop in Ontario will confirm it is a free-ride to innocence and ‘No Charges due to road conditions’ will go on the collision report for these idiots. Bring back real careless driving charges with 6 months jail terms and see what happens. It is uncaring motorist behaviour comparable to drunk driving.
It was a really bad in traffic this morning.
I am wondering why the Ctiy cannot be more proactive by monitoring the weather condition and be on the road with melter and salter.
This morning was a typical event which caused traffice headache for drivers.
Thanks
Joseph
I had to laugh when I heard 680 NEWS traffic reporter Halina Balka talking about numerous vehicles sliding off the roads (e.g. the 403 through Mississauga). This is so typical of most drivers in and around Toronto who don’t know how to adapt to weather changes and changes in road conditions. However, why were the roads covered in ice? Was it perhaps because they were still not salted. After all, this is Toronto. The weather forecasts for fast dropping temperatures after all the rain on Wednesday were only broadcast all day and all night. What does it take to get a snow plow or a road salter out on the roads in this pathetic city?