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Sault Ste. Marie - Superior East

5:08 AM EST Saturday 23 February 2019
Freezing rain warning in effect for:

• Sault Ste. Marie - St. Joseph Island
• Searchmont - Montreal River Harbour - Batchawana Bay

Freezing rain Saturday night then snow and blowing snow with damaging winds Sunday.

Precipitation associated with a winter storm will begin as snow Saturday then is forecast to change to freezing rain. A transition to rain is expected Sunday morning before a change back to snow later Sunday.

Total snow and ice pellet accumulations from this storm will vary widely from 5 to 15 cm.

In addition, northwesterly wind gusts of 90 to 110 km/h are expected Sunday afternoon through Monday morning resulting in very low to zero visibility in blowing snow.

Travel will become hazardous due to accumulating snow and ice pellets and then nil visibility in snow and blowing snow.

Environment Canada meteorologists continue to monitor this developing storm closely.

Surfaces such as highways, roads, walkways and parking lots may become icy and slippery. Utility outages may occur.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ONstorm@canada.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.

5:08 AM EST Saturday 23 February 2019
Winter storm warning in effect for:

• Agawa - Lake Superior Park

Winter storm with 15 to 20 cm of snow and ice pellets Saturday through Sunday and blowing snow Sunday night into early Monday.

Precipitation associated with a winter storm will begin as snow Saturday then may change over to ice pellets with a risk of freezing rain overnight Saturday before changing back to snow Sunday morning. Total snow and ice pellet accumulations of 15 to 20 cm are expected.

Surfaces such as highways, roads, walkways and parking lots may become icy and slippery.

In addition, northwesterly wind gusts of 60 to 80 km/h are expected Sunday night into Monday resulting in very low visibility in blowing snow.

Environment Canada meteorologists continue to monitor this developing storm closely.

Surfaces such as highways, roads, walkways and parking lots may become difficult to navigate due to accumulating snow. Visibility will be suddenly reduced to near zero at times in heavy snow and blowing snow.

Winter storm warnings are issued when multiple types of severe winter weather are expected to occur together.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to ONstorm@canada.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.