Special Weather Statement Issued - Re Wintery Weather

Special weather statement
Updated by Environment Canada
At 10:01 PM EST Thursday 24 February 2011.

Special weather statement issued for..
City of Toronto
Windsor - Essex - Chatham-Kent
Sarnia - Lambton
Elgin
London - Middlesex
Simcoe - Delhi - Norfolk
Oxford - Brant
City of Hamilton
Halton - Peel
York - Durham
Huron - Perth
Waterloo - Wellington
Belleville - Quinte - Northumberland
Peterborough - Kawartha Lakes
Stirling - Tweed - South Frontenac
City of Ottawa
Gatineau
Prescott and Russell
Smiths Falls - Lanark - Sharbot Lake.

..Significant snow likely overnight and Friday..

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An intensifying low pressure system currently located over
Southwestern Kentucky will track south of the lower Great Lakes on
Friday reaching New England by Friday evening.  Snow in advance of
this system is expected to reach the Windsor area after midnight and
continue to spread east reaching the western end of Lake Ontario
towards dawn and the Ottawa area by midday.

Current projections suggest that areas just north of Lake Erie will
receive in the order of 10 to 15 centimetres increasing to 15 or
possibly 20 for Niagara and Dunnville regions where a winter storm
warning is in effect. The greater Toronto area is more likely to
receive closer to 10 centimetres beginning near or shortly before
dawn. Regions along the north shore of Lake Ontario near and east
Of Belleville may also receive in excess of 10 centimetres
potentially reaching 15 from Prince Edward county through Kingston
and along the St Lawrence river. A winter storm watch is in effect
for these areas northeast of Lake Ontario and may be upgraded to
warning as the axis of heavier snow becomes more certain. Winds of
30 gusting to 50 or 60 km/h and local blowing snow will also affect
some parts of Southern Ontario.

The snow will taper off from west to east beginning early Friday
afternoon in Windsor as the low moves further east.  Snow will end in
Toronto by late afternoon and in Ottawa by early evening.