Piercing cold across Canada brings heavy snow, leaves thousands in the dark
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Municipalities across the Prairies and Eastern Canada are bracing for large amounts of snow amid a polar vortex and wintry conditions that are also wreaking havoc in the United States.
In the Atlantic provinces, the system tracking across much of the U.S. is expected to bring snow, wind and blowing snow beginning Sunday night and continuing to Monday night before tapering off to flurries through Tuesday. Snowfall totals are expected to be in the range of 25 to 40 centimetres for Nova Scotia by the time the system pulls away on Tuesday.
Amounts will drop to the north, but a significant snowfall of 15 to 25 centimetres is also expected across southern New Brunswick, with the possibility of some higher totals near 30 centimetres along the Fundy coastline.
The Greater Toronto Area is expected to see the storm touch down at about 11 a.m. ET and continue throughout most of the day. It will reach a high of –8 C, but feel closer to –21 C.
This storm could drop up to 40 centimetres of snow by the time it’s done, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), with higher amounts possible in specific areas from lake enhancement.
ECCC issued an orange warning for most of Saskatchewan, which means the weather is likely to cause widespread or significant damage.
The government agency reported that multiple towns have broken cold weather records.
Brad Vrolijk, a meteorologist with ECCC, stressed that in these conditions, “skin can freeze in under a couple minutes.... When you throw even a light wind on top of that, it gets very dangerous."
Saskatoon has escalated its winter emergency response plan from now until Wednesday because of the cold snap.
The Canadian Red Cross has opened an emergency shelter in the city of Côte Saint-Luc — a residential suburb on the island of Montreal — after thousands of residents lost power during the cold snap on Saturday.
In an email to CBC News on Saturday night, Hydro-Québec said it was working to bring back power to customers but that some addresses may have to wait until Monday.
As of 10:30 a.m. ET Sunday, 3,727 of the 13,368 homes affected had their power restored, according to the City of Côte Saint-Luc.
According to Hydro-Québec, the outages began some time Saturday morning.
On its website, Hydro-Québec listed equipment failure as the cause of the outages in some sectors, while in other areas the cause was listed as unknown.
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