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With a freezing rain warning in effect, Ottawa Public Works is mobilizing its snow-clearing fleet, while Hydro Ottawa stands ready for potential power outages from ice accumulation. Photo by Ashley Fraser / Postmedia Article content After a blanketing of snow overnight, federal officials said they expect to issue a freezing rain warning as a spring storm rolls through Ottawa on Saturday. According to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) , the city received 11 centimetres of snow on Friday night.
Ottawa residents can expect around two centimetres of snow and wind gusts of up to 40 km/h throughout the day Saturday. There is a 40 per cent chance of snow during the day, the weather agency added. Advertisement 2 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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The first phase of a multi-stage storm hit Ottawa on Saturday, blanketing the city with heavy, wet snow. Photo by Ashley Fraser / Postmedia The weather is expected to taper off on Monday with rain during the day and 30 per cent chance of flurries overnight. Gina Ressler, a warning preparedness meteorologist with ECCC, said the precipitation is due to a quasi-stationary front pushing cold air from the north and warm air from the south which is pushing precipitation across Ontario.
Another storm called the Colorado Low is forming and tracking across southern Ontario on Sunday. “On Sunday for Ottawa, we’re looking at about five to 10 millimetres of freezing rain accumulation,” Ressler told the Ottawa Citizen on Saturday. Evening Update The Ottawa Citizen’s best journalism, delivered directly to your inbox by 7 p.
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Article content Advertisement 3 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content “Right now, I know Ottawa has a special weather statement out. This might be updated later today to a freezing rain warning, so that it’s something to keep an eye on.
” The first phase of a multi-stage storm hit Ottawa on Saturday. Photo by Ashley Fraser/POSTMEDIA Photo by Ashley Fraser / Postmedia Across eastern Ontario, provincial police have responded to almost 70 collisions between midnight and 9 a.m.
, according to an OPP social media post on Saturday morning. The northbound lanes of Highway 416 were also closed between Highway 401 and Country Road 421 south of Spencerville due to multiple collisions in the area. According to an OPP social media post, a northbound vehicle rolled into a ditch at around midnight.
Another vehicle skidded out of the lane and struck the vehicle before entering the ditch, resulting in “several people injured.” Advertisement 4 Story continues below This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Four people were transported to the local trauma centre with serious injuries and at least four others were transported to hospital with minor injuries, police said.
Just over 11 centimetres of snow blanketed Ottawa overnight. Photo by Ashley Fraser/POSTMEDIA Photo by Ashley Fraser / Postmedia “ The weather conditions were poor at the time,” the OPP’s social media post said. The area was closed for the OPP Technical Collision Team to complete their on-scene investigation.
“ We continue to recommend postponing non-essential travel. If you must be on the roads – SLOW DOWN, leave extra time and distance and drive carefully,” the social media post continued to read. The first phase of a multi-stage storm involved 11 centimetres of snow fall overnight.
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