GTA returns back to business following heavy snowstorm
CBC
Residents in the Greater Toronto Area are digging themselves out and going back to their regular weekday schedules a day after a major snowstorm.
About two to four centimetres of snowfall is expected throughout the region, including Peel, York and Durham, according to Environment Canada. Flurries are forecasted to start in the afternoon and end close to midnight.
In Toronto, a high of -2 C is expected that will feel more like -13 due to wind chill.
The weather will be a reprieve for residents after the heavy snowstorm and frigid temperatures that hit on Thursday, which led Environment Canada to issue an orange level alert during the day.
About 22 centimetres of snow was recorded after the storm at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, said meterologist Monica Vaswani with Environment Canada on Thursday.
She said unofficial measurements by volunteers recorded 53 centimetres in north Scarborough, 45 centimetres in Markham, 37.4 centimetres at Downsview and 21 centimetres in downtown Toronto.
Several colleges, universities and schools — with the exception of schools in the Durham region — shut down on Thursday because of the inclement weather. School districts across the region also cancelled bus service.
Elementary schools under the Toronto District School Board, Toronto Catholic District School Board, York Region District School Board and York Region Catholic District School Board are closed Friday due to a pre-planned Professional Activity day.
School districts in Peel and Durham are set to open back up on Friday, as there have been no posts on websites or on social media as of 6:25 a.m. about closures or cancellation of bus service.
Students relying on bus service in Durham are facing up to 30 minute delays this morning, according to the Durham Student Transportation Services website.
University of Toronto’s Mississauga and Scarborough campuses posted on social media that it was returning to regularly scheduled classes. York University also updated its website that classes would resume as normal.
Transit lines in the city are still facing delays and closures due to ongoing efforts to remove the snow buildup from Thursday.
Line 6 was down again on Friday from Finch West to Humber College station due to snow clearing efforts, said TTC spokesperson Susan Nguyen.
It came after the Finch West LRT was down twice on Thursday with the second outage lasting nearly 14 and a half hours straight.
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