It’s been a wild, Winter week it began with freezing rain and
an ice storm that will end in Hamilton, Environment Canada says, with more snow
mixed with rain.
The weather forecast suggests it will be starting tonight,
the national weather agency says the city is expected to get 2 to 4 centimeters
of snow mixed with rain.
All this after a winter storm hit much of Southern Ontario
last weekend causing power outages, dangerous driving conditions and some
flooding. According to Environment forecast, Hamilton airport reported 11 hours
of ice pellets last Saturday and six hours of ice pellets mixed with freezing
rain Sunday.
According to the reports there was a "maximum
packed" ice pellet depth of 15 centimeters, with a total rainfall
equivalent of 74.2 millimeters plus wind gusts of up to 87 km/h Sunday
afternoon.
The report states Thursday will be mainly cloudy with a 40
per cent chance of flurries with a high of 3 C and a low of - 3 C.
The most snow on record to have fallen on April 18 in
Hamilton came down in 1969 when 5.1 centimeters came down.
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