{"id":549183,"date":"2026-03-20T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549183\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:55:12","slug":"snow-ice-pellets-freezing-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549183\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow, ice pellets, freezing rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Friday marks the first day of spring but you wouldn\u2019t know it by looking at the forecast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto is currently under a special weather statement with Environment Canada warning of a risk of freezing rain along with snow and ice pellets on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere may be an impact on rush hour traffic,\u201d the national weather agency said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cRoads and walkways may be difficult to navigate due to accumulating snow or ice pellets. There is risk of injury due to slips and falls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The inclement weather is expected to stick around until early afternoon, when the precipitation will switch to rain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis morning we\u2019re getting a messy mix over the GTA,\u201d CP24 Meteorologist Bill Coulter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cBut, warmer winds will transition the precipitation to rain over the region by midday. Showers will ease through the midafternoon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Toronto will see a high of 6 C on Friday and more mild weather is expected this weekend. Environment Canada is calling for cloudy skies and a high of 5 C on Saturday. Sunday will see rain and a high of 6 C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday marks the first day of spring but you wouldn\u2019t know it by looking at the forecast. Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[712,49,48,44],"class_list":["post-549183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549183","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=549183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}