{"id":379552,"date":"2025-12-31T14:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379552\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T14:44:10","slug":"new-years-eve-canada-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379552\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year’s Eve Canada weather forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meteorologist Michelle Jobin has on s an update on temperatures across Canada on New Year\u2019s Eve. <\/p>\n

Canadians ringing in the New Year will get their last blast of winter as Environment Canada warns of widespread chilly weather stretching across parts of the country.<\/p>\n

Frigid temperatures, snow and icy conditions are shaping celebrations coast to coast. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a look at New Year\u2019s Eve forecast for Canada.<\/p>\n

According to Environment Canada, much of central Canada remains under winter weather advisories and warnings heading into the New Year. <\/p>\n

In Toronto, flurries and a risk of snow squalls<\/a> are expected on Wednesday, with winds gusting up to 40 km\/h. There will be a high of -2 C on New Year\u2019s Eve but it will feel closer to -13 in the morning and -8 in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Frigid temperatures have prompted the city to keep five warming centres open.<\/p>\n

Snow squall warnings are in effect across central Ontario snowbelt regions, including parts of Simcoe County, Grey-Bruce and Huron-Perth which could see between 10 to 30 centimetres of snow.<\/p>\n

For northern parts of the GTA, like Orangeville and Grand Valley, residents could see between 15 to 30 centimetres of snow with near-zero visibility.<\/p>\n

As for Ottawa<\/a>, Environment Canada\u2019s weather forecast calls for sunshine during the day Wednesday with a high of -10 C and a wind chill of -13.<\/p>\n

\"\"Weather map Environment Canada map shows where weather advisories and statements have been issued as of Thursday morning. (Environment Canada) Quebec<\/p>\n

Large parts of northern and eastern Quebec are under active weather alerts.<\/p>\n

In eastern Quebec and the Gasp\u00e9 Peninsula, several areas – including Chandler, Murdichville, Perc\u00e9, Grande-Vall\u00e9e – are under winter storm watches. Forecasts call for 15 to 25 centimetres of snow from Thursday evening to Friday evening. <\/p>\n

Across northern Quebec communities, strong wind warnings remain in place. Wind gusts up to 90 km\/h are expected.<\/p>\n

Western Canada<\/p>\n

Environment Canada has issued fog advisories for parts of central Alberta, including areas near Drayton Valley, Leduc and Ponoka counties, warning that near zero visibility in patchy fog is occurring.<\/p>\n

Similar fog advisories are issued for Vancouver, Burnby and New Westminster. The advisory said a ridge of high pressure is settling over the Vancouver region.<\/p>\n

Widespread cold warnings were put in place for norther Manitoba with wind chills between -40 and -50 C. Residents will brace cold temperatures from now with \u201cmarginal improvements throughout the day,\u201d and Thursday, according to the advisory. <\/p>\n

Northern Saskatchewan will see similar wind chill temperatures with coldest conditions overnight and early Thursday morning. <\/p>\n

Atlantic Canada<\/p>\n

Special weather statements across much of New Brunswick, including Acadian peninsula, Moncton, Saint John and Fredericton is forecasting 15 to 30 centimetres of snow from Thursday afternoon until Friday morning.<\/p>\n

Snow squall watches were issued for much of Nova Scotia, including Shelburne, Yarmouth, Digby and more. Wind gusts of 50 km\/h and snowfall of up to 5 centimetres is expected. <\/p>\n

In the norther parts of the province, 10 to 20 centimetres of snow is expected. Residents of Prince and Queen counties in P.E.I can expect the same snowfall amounts.<\/p>\n

In Bay St. George, Newfoundland and Labrador, two to four centimetres of snow is in the forecast with possibility of it exceeding 10 centimetres in the squall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meteorologist Michelle Jobin has on s an update on temperatures across Canada on New Year\u2019s Eve. Canadians ringing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-379552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379552","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=379552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}