Environment Canada issued a winter storm watch on Monday, which was upgraded to a warning Monday night.
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Areas under warnings include London-Middlesex, Sarnia-Lambton, Elgin, Oxford, Huron-Perth, Grey-Bruce, Wellington, Halton-Pel and Dufferin-Innisfil.
Another low pressure system from Texas will track towards the Lower Great Lakes Monday brining snow to the region for tomorrow.
A rain/snow mix should develop this evening and spread east out of Iowa across northern IL, changing over to a heavy wet snow later Monday night and continuing into Tuesday morning.
Snow and blowing snow will continue to impact Quebec for much of the day on Wednesday with wind gusts up to 70 km/h likely.
The snow Toronto experienced Tuesday afternoon is just a preview of what’s to come. “3-6” may fall there.
While the city prepares to clean up from the storm, Environment Canada said people should consider rescheduling all non-essential travel until the conditions improve.
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The heavy, wet snow will be problematic on two fronts: it’s expected to make shoveling much more hard, and create very poor traction on the roads. We will hit air at 4am Tuesday with 12 News This Morning keeping you up to date on the snow and road conditions. Visibility will be suddenly reduced to near zero at times in heavy snow and blowing snow.
