Toronto and other parts of the GTHA are under freezing rain warnings, as Environment Canada forecasts temperatures to dip into the freezing mark this evening.<\/p>\n
A yellow warning was issued for the city, as well as several areas of the Halton, Peel, Hamilton, Durham, and York regions, with the national weather agency saying the freezing rain could lead to \u201clocally icy and slippery conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA low pressure system is expected to spread another area of rain into the region beginning late this afternoon,\u201d the warning reads<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u201cRain will change to freezing rain early this evening in most areas except immediately along the shore of Lake Ontario where mainly rain with temperatures just above zero is expected.\u201d<\/p>\n Environment Canada says ice accretion or build-up of up to two millimetres is possible, but that the freezing rain is expected to taper off around midnight.<\/p>\n However, they warn that patchy or freezing drizzle could persist into Friday morning.<\/p>\n The freezing rain warning comes as Toronto is anticipating double digit temperatures<\/a>\u2014up to 16 C\u2014on Saturday, following months of frigid temperatures<\/a> and massive amounts of snow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto and other parts of the GTHA are under freezing rain warnings, as Environment Canada forecasts temperatures to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-516512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516512","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=516512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}