(4:50 p.m. update) Many areas included in weather statement
Monday, March 11, 2013 by: SooToday.com Staff
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
ENVIRONMENT CANADA
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT FOR: KAPUSKASING - HEARST- WAWA - WHITE RIVER - PUKASKWA - SAULT STE. MARIE - SUPERIOR EAST - GREATER SUDBURY AND VICINITY - ELLIOT LAKE - RANGER LAKE - MANITOULIN - BLIND RIVER - KILLARNEY - NORTH BAY - WEST NIPISSING.
SNOW WITH RISK OF FREEZING RAIN TONIGHT NORTHEAST OF LAKE SUPERIOR.
SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL AND FOG PATCHES CLOSER TO NORTHERN LAKE HURON AND GEORGIAN BAY.
A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER LOWER MICHIGAN WILL SLOWLY TRACK OVER CENTRAL ONTARIO TONIGHT.
A SWATH OF ORGANIZED PRECIPITATION HAS ENVELOPED MUCH OF NORTHEASTERN ONTARIO WITH RAIN OVER SOUTHERN AREAS AND SNOW FARTHER NORTH.
IT WILL CONTINUE TONIGHT BEFORE TAPERING OFF TUESDAY WHEN THE LOW WILL HEAD INTO QUEBEC.
TOTAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF 10 TO LOCALLY 15 CENTIMETRES ARE LIKELY IN A BAND TO THE NORTHEAST OF LAKE SUPERIOR, WITH FREEZING RAIN ALSO POSSIBLE TONIGHT.
EVEN HIGHER SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ARE LIKELY AROUND CHAPLEAU AND TIMMINS WHERE A SNOWFALL WARNING IS IN EFFECT.
FREEZING RAIN WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR GOGAMA AND KIRKLAND LAKE FOR THIS EVENING.
A RAINFALL WARNING IS IN EFFECT ACROSS MANITOULIN TO SUDBURY AND NORTH BAY WHERE 30 TO 50 MM ARE EXPECTED BY THE TIME THE RAIN TAPERS OFF TUESDAY MORNING.
THROUGH THESE REGIONS, AS WELL AS OVER SAULT STE MARIE AND ELLIOT LAKE, FOG PATCHES ARE EXPECTED TO REFORM THIS EVENING AND PERSIST TONIGHT.
VISIBILITIES MAY FALL BELOW 200 METRES IN DENSE FOG.
MOTORISTS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POOR ROAD CONDITIONS IN ACCUMULATING SNOW, FREEZING RAIN, AND LOWER VISIBILITIES IN FOG OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHEASTERN ONTARIO.
PLEASE MONITOR THE LATEST FORECASTS AND WARNINGS FROM ENVIRONMENT CANADA.
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