{"id":401636,"date":"2026-01-11T01:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401636\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T01:50:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T01:50:04","slug":"freezing-rain-warning-issued-for-kingston-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/401636\/","title":{"rendered":"Freezing rain warning issued for Kingston area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada is warning that the Kingston, Ont., area could be hit with freezing rain Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The agency issued a yellow-level warning Saturday, saying that the city could see two to four millimetres of ice buildup.<\/p>\n<p>The precipitation will likely begin as snow or ice pellets before changing to freezing rain and then ending overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Areas closer to Lake Ontario will likely avoid the worst of it, Environment Canada said, as temperatures should hover just above the freezing mark.<\/p>\n<p>As of late Saturday afternoon, the warnings were in place for a stretch of eastern Ontario stretching from Quinte West to just south of Brockville.<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa was not under a weather warning, with the national capital&#8217;s forecast calling for 10 to 15 centimetres of snow Saturday night with a risk of freezing rain overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-401636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401636","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=401636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}