Thursday, January 31, 2008

Big winter snowstorm coming. to Toronto.. again

This forecast about says it all

Winter storm warning for: City of Toronto
Issued at 3:47 PM EST THURSDAY 31 JANUARY 2008

SNOW HEAVY AT TIMES IS EXPECTED ACROSS ALL OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN ONTARIO WITH A POSSIBILITY OF FREEZING RAIN AND ICE PELLETS ALONG LAKES ERIE AND ONTARIO ON FRIDAY. THIS IS A WARNING THAT DANGEROUS WINTER WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE IMMINENT OR OCCURRING IN THESE REGIONS. MONITOR WEATHER CONDITIONS..LISTEN FOR UPDATED STATEMENTS.
A LOW PRESSURE AREA OVER ARKANSAS IS GETTING ORGANIZED AND SETTING ITS SIGHTS ON SOUTHERN ONTARIO. AS THE LOW MOVES EAST ACROSS THE SOUTHERN STATES THEN CURVES NORTHEAST TOWARDS THE OHIO VALLEY TONIGHT IT IS EXPECTED TO TAP INTO A LOT OF MOISTURE AND ENERGY FROM THE GULF OF MEXICO. AS A RESULT IT IS LIKELY THAT THIS LOW WILL INTENSIFY INTO A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM AS IT MOVES INTO SOUTHERN ONTARIO LATER TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. LATEST INDICATIONS SHOW THE POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF SNOW FROM THIS DEEPENING LOW AS IT TRACKS NORTHEAST JUST SOUTH OF LAKES ERIE AND ONTARIO TOWARDS NEW ENGLAND BY SATURDAY. THIS TYPE OF WINTER STORM OFTEN HAS A SWATH OF 15 TO 30 CENTIMETRES OF HEAVY SNOW ASSOCIATED WITH IT. FREEZING RAIN AND ICE PELLETS WILL ALSO BE A PROBLEM AS THE STORM CENTRE GETS CLOSE TO THE LOWER GREAT LAKES.



The bad news, I have to make the trek to work. The good news, my next run will be using snow tires.

1 comment:

Sonia said...

Ohhhh nice spikes! Those look pretty sharp!! Good luck with all the snow! I am just wishing we don't get too much!