Tag: environment canada
Custodians: When snow closes schools, why do we still have to risk getting there?
While almost everyone in the Thames Valley District school board was safe and warm at home during a major snow event that closed all London-area schools for two days this week, one group of employees was forced to get to work anyway.
Snow daze: Unpacking a wild and woolly week in London
From a surge in snowblower sales to the city asking for help uncovering bagged leaves buried under snow, this week’s big lake-effect storms impacted London and the region in different ways. Here’s a roundup of what Environment Canada had to say about snow squalls that started Monday and returned a couple more times and how […]
LIVE: Mother Nature set to pile on with another blast of snow
As if we didn’t have enough snow already, Thursday is expected to bring another wintry wallop starting in Bruce County around Wiarton and moving southeast toward the London area. Follow along below for to-the-minute coverage from our journalists across the region 7:04 a.m. In the Owen Sound area, an estimated one inch of snow fell […]
LIVE: Snowy Southwestern Ontario faces another wintry blast
As if we didn’t have enough snow already, Thursday was bringing another wintry wallop from Bruce County around Owen Sound all the way southeast toward the London area and beyond. Follow along below for to-the-minute coverage from our journalists across the region 11:38 a.m. Officials in Oxford County have announced that libraries in Ingersoll, Tillsonburg, […]
LIVE: Crashes, closures as snow pounds Southwestern Ontario
As if we didn’t have enough snow already, Thursday was bringing another wintry wallop from Bruce County around Owen Sound all the way southeast toward the London area and beyond. Follow along below for to-the-minute coverage from our journalists across the region 2:15 p.m. Trouble on Hwy. 401 east of London: 2:01 p.m. London Public […]
More snow, high winds set to lash London: Environment Canada
Settle in, and get ready to start digging out. More snow is coming for London Wednesday and there will be high winds to blow it around with Environment Canada issuing a “blowing snow advisory” for the city and warning that winds will hit between 40 and 60 kilometres/hour. As much as four more centimetres of […]
PHOTOS: Digging out from early December snow dump
Tuesday was the second day of a wintry wallop that’s ushered in December with a blast of snow in the London region. It’s not going to get any better on Wednesday when Environment Canada says winds gusting up to 70 kilometres an hour will cause reduced visibility because of blowing snow. Photos by Derek Ruttan […]
Another wintry wallop slams London region as buses nixed, schools closed
With snow flurries continuing in London Tuesday morning, school buses were cancelled and several schools shut down across the city and region. There was a risk of snow squalls in the city and area with five centimetres of snow expected and wind gusting to 20 kilometres/hour near noon, Environment Canada officials warned. The high Tuesday […]
Grey Bruce OPP busy with collisions during storm
Grey Bruce OPP received 57 collision reports during the snowstorm from Friday to Sunday. Many drivers struggled due to icy roads, snow, and poor visibility but there were no serious injuries reported in any of the collisions, Const. Krista Linthorne said by email Monday. She suggested the lack of serious injuries was related to drivers […]
What is lake-effect snow, and why does it slam the London region so often?
Londoners know it when they see it, lake-effect snow closing in and blanketing the region.