Environment Canada says strong winds and blowing snow is possible Friday afternoon prompting the national weather agency to issue a special weather statement for Toronto and nearby cities.<\/p>\n
Federal meteorologists are expecting wind gusts up to 80 km\/h with local blowing snow possible in rural and exposed areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cA low pressure system will push into the region today which will bring snow, with 4 to 8 cm possible by this evening,\u201d the agency wrote in a statement. \u201cStrong winds are expected to develop in association with the low, with wind gusts up to 70 km\/h possible. A cold front will quickly push through the region this evening. Wind gusts up to 80 km\/h will be possible with the passage of the cold front.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe winds are expected to ease after the passage of the front,\u201d it added. \u201cLocal blowing snow and reduced visibility will be possible for exposed rural areas.\u201d<\/p>\n
The temperature on Friday is expected to reach a high of \u2013 3 C during the day and will possibly drop to \u2013 20 C at night.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery cold wind chills are also expected to develop tonight into Saturday morning,\u201d Environment Canada says. \u201cKeep emergency supplies in your vehicle such as extra blankets and jumper cables.\u201d<\/p>\n
A more seasonal weather pattern is slated to begin Tuesday through next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment Canada says strong winds and blowing snow is possible Friday afternoon prompting the national weather agency to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-457835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457835","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=457835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}