Extreme Weather Centre: Live closures, cancellations and forecasts
Posted February 8, 2013 11:03 pm.
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All public and Catholic school were open Friday in Toronto, York, Durham and Simcoe, but all buses and transportation was cancelled.
Peel, Halton, Hamilton-Wentworth cancelled all buses and closed schools.
All post-secondary institutions were closed, except the University of Toronto’s St. George campus.
The snowfall warning for the Greater Toronto Area has ended.
Snow fall warnings have ended for Waterloo, London, Simcoe and Grey Bruce.
Most regions will find themselves with between 15 to 25 centimetres of snow by day’s end Environment Canada said.
“The amounts do vary, but no one’s been left out of the snow on this one,” senior climatologist David Phillips said. “I think it has followed through just as we thought.”
The storm claimed three victims. The first being an 80-year-old woman in Hamilton. The woman collapsed while shovelling her driveway early Friday morning, confirmed Ian Wright of Hamilton Paramedic Services.
A multi-vehicle collision in Pickering killed a 49-year-old man and a 57-year-old died when his car crashed in blizzard conditions along Highwat 401 near Prescott.
Provincial police Sgt. Dave Woodford said treacherous driving conditions shut down stretches of highway from Chatham to Brockville throughout the day.
Much of the traffic-related trouble was centred in Toronto, he said, where more than 350 collisions had been reported since midnight.
“We’re urging people to stay off the roads at this time so we can get the highways cleaned up,” he said.
Woodford said this comes as little surprise since Torontonians have grown accustomed to nearly bare streets for the past four winters.
Atlantic Canadians can expect to start feeling the storm’s effects by Saturday.
Parts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland could see between 30 and 40 centimetres of snow and wind gusts up to 110 kilometres an hour, Environment Canada said.
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