{"id":438025,"date":"2025-12-10T14:36:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/438025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:36:20","slug":"snowfall-warning-issued-across-southern-ontario-for-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/438025\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowfall warning issued across southern Ontario for Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada has issued a \u201cyellow-level\u201d snowfall warning for a large portion of southern Ontario on Wednesday as 10 centimetres or more of snow is expected in most areas.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The weather agency said an Alberta clipper has brought snow across the area, which \u201cmay be heavy at times,\u201d beginning early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>However, lesser snowfall amounts are expected near the Lake Ontario shoreline, where a transition to rain or rain-snow mix is expected.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is expected to see snowfall amounts near 10 cm. Areas north of the city, such as Barrie, are expected to see closer to 15 cm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTravel will likely be challenging. Roads and walkways will likely be difficult to navigate due to accumulating snow. There may be a significant impact on rush hour traffic. Visibility will likely be reduced at times,\u201d Environment Canada said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The weather agency also warns drivers to prepare for quickly changing and deteriorating travel conditions and to allow for extra travel time.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tCanada launches new colour-coded alert system<\/p>\n<p>Environment and Climate Change Canada will now be using a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11543316\/canada-new-alert-system-extreme-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">colour-coded system<\/a> to make it easier to understand the severity of extreme weather and any risks that people might need to know about.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<ul class=\"l-inlineStories__posts c-posts c-posts--inline \">\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11570185\/mccain-crispy-potato-bites-recalled\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/tater-tots.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tMcCain Tasti Taters recalled in Canada due to plastic pieces\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li class=\"c-posts__item\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11570641\/canada-ambassador-us-kirsten-hillman-leaving-role\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/7f6292e0ce6d8a9ae14c242779edaef754226c6bee870b6a1b0f7f901ab59af0.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCarney proteg\u00e9 eyed to succeed Hillman as Canada\u2019s U.S. ambassador: sources\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each type of weather alert will now include a colour \u2014 yellow, orange or red \u2014 to show the seriousness of the weather event, according to the Canadian government.<\/p>\n<p>Yellow alerts are the most common; this is the alert level for the snowfall across southern Ontario on Wednesday. They are issued when hazardous weather may cause damage, disruption or health impacts. Impacts are likely moderate, localized and\/or short-term.<\/p>\n<p>Orange alerts are issued when severe weather is likely to cause significant damage, disruption or health impacts. Impacts can be major, widespread and\/or may last a few days.<\/p>\n<p>Red alerts are rare. They are issued when very dangerous and possibly life-threatening weather will cause extreme damage and disruption. Impacts have the potential to be extensive, widespread and prolonged.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 with files from Global News\u2019 Amy Judd<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Toronto<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Environment Canada has issued a \u201cyellow-level\u201d snowfall warning for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":438026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2147,59872,50,71178,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-438025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-environment-canada","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-snow","12":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115695779208539953","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}