{"id":287138,"date":"2025-11-16T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287138\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:04:15","slug":"up-to-40-cm-of-snow-with-potent-squalls-threatens-travel-in-parts-of-southern-ontario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287138\/","title":{"rendered":"Up to 40 cm of snow with potent squalls threatens travel in parts of southern Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"

Squalls continue to intensify on Sunday, with the main focus being off Lake Huron and targeting London-Woodstock, with a secondary focus off Georgian Bay targeting Collingwood to Highway 400 south of Barrie.<\/p>\n

Lake Huron squalls will target several counties, but the worst conditions with significant whiteouts are forecast in: Huron, southern Perth, Oxford, eastern Middlesex and Norfolk counties.
\nHighway 3, Highway 4, Highway 21, and Highway 401 are some of the routes impacted.<\/p>\n

\"Ontario<\/p>\n

The Georgian Bay squall will be impacting communities and population centres downwind, including Toronto.<\/p>\n

Greater Toronto Area<\/p>\n

City of Toronto<\/p>\n

Vaughan \u2192 Richmond Hill, Markham<\/p>\n

Pickering \u2192 Oshawa, southern Durham<\/p>\n

Simcoe County-Georgian Bay Corridor<\/p>\n

Barrie \u2192 Collingwood, Hillsdale<\/p>\n

Innisfil \u2192 New Tecumseth, Angus<\/p>\n

Midland \u2192 Coldwater, Orr Lake<\/p>\n

Barrie \u2192 Midhurst<\/p>\n

Newmarket \u2192 Georgina, northern York<\/p>\n

\"Ontario<\/p>\n

Through Sunday evening and overnight, heightened squall activity persists with the Arctic air in place, with the aforementioned dominant squalls. Peak snowfall rates of 3-5 cm an hour and peak wind gusts of 60-70 km\/h.<\/p>\n

Residents and drivers can expect snow squalls to meander over the region through the day Sunday, continuing into the overnight hours and lingering into Monday.<\/p>\n

Through Tuesday, the band of snow off Lake Huron could produce 20-40+ cm of snow for parts of Huron, Middlesex, Elgin, Perth and Oxford counties. Locally higher totals are possible, especially if the band remains stationary for an extended period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Squalls continue to intensify on Sunday, with the main focus being off Lake Huron and targeting London-Woodstock, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,11738,20792,130039,3623],"class_list":["post-287138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-snow","tag-southern-ontario","tag-squall","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}