{"id":429533,"date":"2026-01-24T04:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429533\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T04:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T04:58:09","slug":"weather-alert-issued-for-up-to-20-cm-of-snow-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/429533\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather alert issued for up to 20 cm of snow Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/en\/location\/index.html?coords=43.451,-80.488\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">special weather statement<\/a> has been issued as there\u2019s the potential for up to 20 cm of snow beginning Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada is expecting a weather system will move in either Sunday morning or Sunday afternoon, and snowfall will end Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still uncertainty around the winter storm but currently, forecasters are projecting 10 to 20 cm of accumulation.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just the latest weather alert to be issued for Waterloo Region following a spate of recent severe wintry conditions. <\/p>\n<p>As of Friday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UW_WeatherStn\/status\/2014761779818021275\" rel=\"nofollow\">University of Waterloo Weather Station<\/a> said it has recorded 191.5 cm of snowfall locally since Nov. 1.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, 196.5 cm of snow was recorded last winter, and the average snowfall total for the season is 159.7 cm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/jan2026snowerin4-e1769184934686-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"A large snowbank\" class=\"wp-image-4105960\"  \/>(Erin Anderson\/CityNews Kitchener)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A special weather statement has been issued as there\u2019s the potential for up to 20 cm of snow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-429533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429533","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=429533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}