Snow Update I.

Here comes the snow-all dressed in white. That makes sense for what is about to happen.


Courtest of The Weather Network, here are the updates.


Issued by ENVIRONMENT CANADA
Winter storm watch for: City of Toronto
Issued at 3:14 PM EST FRIDAY 14 DECEMBER 2007
..MAJOR WINTER STORM APPROACHING SATURDAY EVENING.. THIS IS AN ALERT TO THE POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT OF DANGEROUS WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THESE REGIONS. MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS..LISTEN FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS.
A MAJOR WINTER STORM CURRENTLY DEVELOPING IN TEXAS WILL MAKE ITS WAY NORTH TOWARDS SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO SATURDAY AFTERNOON. SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OVER THE REGIONS ARE LIKELY SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. IT IS POSSIBLE WINTER STORM WARNINGS WILL HAVE TO BE ISSUED FOR SOME REGIONS DUE TO LOCAL SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 25 CENTIMETRES IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS. THE HIGHEST SNOWFALL AMOUNTS WILL LIKELY BE IN THE HAMILTON AREA WHERE EMBEDDED LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL ADD TO THE MOISTURE OF THE SYSTEM. THERE WILL ALSO BE SIGNIFICANT BLOWING SNOW AND POSSIBLY FREEZING RAIN OVER THE REGIONS. THE SNOW WILL SPREAD NORTHWARD AND EASTWARDS OVER MOST OF SOUTHERN ONTARIO SATURDAY NIGHT AND THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. THIS WILL MAKE TRAVEL ON THE ROADS EXTREMELY HAZARDOUS AND TRAVELLERS ARE ADVISED TO USE EXTREME CAUTION SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY IF THEY HAVE TO USE THE ROADS. ENVIRONMENT CANADA IS MONITORING THE SITUATION CAREFULLY AND WILL ISSUE THE APPROPRIATE WEATHER WARNINGS AS THE STORM EVOLVES. STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES.PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST PUBLIC FORECASTS FOR FURTHER DETAILS.

Also, go to www.citynews.ca and click on BLOGS and follow the links to weather. www.CityNews.ca/weather has updates as well.

Stay tuned for Part II.

Chris

Weather Specialist (Meteorologist in Training)

PS: I'd love to see your pics. Send them to city.weather@yahoo.ca. I've been assigned to 24 hour on-call, meaning I need to be up when I'm needed for the Storm Watch. I'll be blogging continuously.

I'm also off from December 18 to 21.