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Storm Developing in Oklahoma Will Stretch To Canada: Already Blizzards, 48-Hour Blackouts, Deep Freezes
Saturday, January 4, 2014 22:02
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Eastern Canada socked bysnow, frigid temperatures
Snow, cold disrupt large swath of US, Canada; more to come
As Ontario readies for another winter storm and the Prairies face extreme wind chill warnings, tens of thousands of Newfoundlanders remain without power in the wake of Friday’s blizzard.
Environment Canada issued a special weather statement Saturday night for much of southern Ontario, warning of heavy snowfalls for Sunday, with mixed precipitation in some parts
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The winter storm, now developing over Oklahoma, will intensify and track northeastward into Ontario, the weather agency said. Monday will be windy and sharply colder with some blowing snow and snow squalls.
Wind chill warnings are in effect for northwestern Ontario, as another blast of Arctic air invaded the region Saturday night. Temperatures are expected to plummet to –30 C to –35 C. With wind chills, it will feel more like –40 C Saturday night and into Sunday morning.
The extreme cold is likely to persist into Tuesday, Environment Canada said.
Meanwhile in Newfoundland, about 110,000 customers were without power as of 8 p.m. local time, down from a high of 190,000 in the morning when the outage started. The number fluctuated throughout Saturday as repairs and high demand for power pull the system in opposite directions.
CBC meteorologist Janine Baijnath said Saturday that Newfoundland and Labrador, in particular, has been seriously hit with a blizzard that left about 38 centimetres of snow. Many Newfoundlanders awoke to no power, after 48 hours of rolling outages that ended Friday night.
Ever seen weather like this tom? I mean we get cold, sure… But this cold? This long? In all these places?
Hey, Jude… Just have 2 keep HAARPing on it until people start questioning what they think is Reality?
It,s going to be like this for 2 more months in the great lakes region and if you remember the late 60,s and early 70,s this is a winter like then……so welcome to the real north america.