
Massive winter storm prompts weather warnings across several provinces
HALIFAX — Environment Canada issued a flurry of weather warnings Wednesday as a huge winter storm was forecast to descend across parts of Ontario and Quebec and quickly spread to Atlantic Canada.
“The entire eastern half of the country is going to be seeing something from this by the time we reach Friday,” meteorologist Ian Hubbard said in an interview from the Atlantic storm prediction centre in Halifax.
The centre of the low-pressure system was expected to move over Toronto starting Wednesday afternoon, then move to Montreal and Quebec City early Thursday before travelling to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and on to western Newfoundland.
A large portion of Ontario, stretching from the Temiskaming-Temagami area in the north to the Sarnia area in the south, was under a snowfall warning, as was the southern half of Quebec.