A high-impact ice storm will certainly proceed right into Sunday after hours of ice accretion knocked senseless power to greater than 300,000 clients throughout Ontario since very early Sunday early morning.
Expect prevalent power failures to continue via the rest of the weekend break, together with treacherous driving problems throughout areas experiencing freezing rainfall and hefty snowfall.
Stay home when possible throughout durations of freezing rainfall. Be certain to examine highway conditions and local weather alerts prior to going out if essential.
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The city of Orillia proclaimed a state of emergency on Sunday early morning because of prevalent power failures, downed trees, and unsafe roadway problems throughout the city from the ice tornado.
City authorities are prompting citizens to stay in their homes and avoid travelling when traveling while teams function to recover power and tidy up. They are additionally prompting for marginal water make use of so regarding not support the sewage system systems.
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Second round of ice proceeds right into Sunday
Widespread freezing rainfall dropped throughout home nation and eastern Ontario on Saturday, together with a large dosage of snow throughout northeastern Ontario and the Ottawa Valley.
Precipitation selected back up Saturday evening after a loved one time-out throughout the day, resulting in added ice increase throughout a number of the exact same locations currently struck hard by ice build-up.
Forecasters anticipate a light polish of ice to establish throughout sections of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) as temperature levels drop around the freezing mark right into Sunday early morning. The area can see 2-5 mm of ice increase– not a high-impact occasion, yet sufficient to make subjected surface areas glossy.
Greater total amounts are anticipated promptly north of the GTA. Folks around Orangeville, Dundalk, Barrie, and Orillia can see an added 15-20 mm of ice increaseSunday This gets on top of what’s currently dropped. Further power failures are most likely.
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Widespread added ice augmentations of 10-15 mm remain in the projection throughout much of home nation and eastern Ontario, with around 10 mm of ice anticipated in addition to the snow that dropped in and around Ottawa.
Temperatures throughout southerly Ontario will progressively increase via the day Sunday, enabling rainfall to transform over to ordinary rainfall and ice to start thawing off trees and high-voltage line. This warmup will certainly cause a severe thunderstorm threat throughout southwestern Ontario by Sunday night.
It’s not simply southerly Ontario birthing the impact of this icy tornado. Communities north of Lake Huron are handling substantial quantities of ice and snow as a Colorado reduced establishes and crosses the area.
Sault Ste. Marie and Timmins are in line for 20-30 centimeters of snow via Monday, with some backwoods possibly viewing as long as 50 centimeters of build-up. It’s most likely that hefty snow will certainly close down Highways 11 and 17 near Lake Superior and Timmins on Sunday evening right into Monday.
Immediately southern of that swath of hefty snow, 30-40 mm of ice increase from freezing rainfall can create remarkably hard follow the Trans-Canada in betweenSault Ste Marie and Sudbury.
Beyond, temperature levels can quickly skyrocket right into the teenagers throughout Sunday evening and very early Monday in advance of a solid cold spell, which will certainly bring much cooler weather condition back to the area to begin April.
Stay with The Weather Network for all the current on your projection throughout Ontario.
Thumbnail picture absorbed Barrie, Ont., on March 30, 2025, by Mark Robinson/ TWN.
