Winter Storm Warning

Above: Pennsylvania today, over a foot of wet snow has fallen, some highways are closed,
trees down and power out. Photo: justinbcarrier

A powerful early season winter storm is located over southern New England this afternoon and will move to lie east of Montreal tomorrow. A wide swath of precipitation is steadily moving north and west into North Grenville at this hour. The snow has started in Kemptville and winds continue to howl out of the north at 45km/h and as high as 65km/h in the area. The snow will become heavy this evening and tonight before tapering off on to flurries early Wednesday. Travel will become very difficult tonight and overnight as temperatures drop and winds increase. Avoid travel if possible till mid-morning tomorrow. Power outages have already been reported in the Ottawa region by Hydro One and Ottawa Hydro.

Winter Storm Warnings are in effect for the entire region with 15-20cm expected from Ottawa south towards Brockville and into the Adirondacks. Rain will mainly fall east of a line from Cornwall to Hawkesbury. Precipitation will taper off quickly west of Kingston

In the lee of the Great Lakes the snow machine will turn on and squalls are expected tonight and tomorrow on very strong northwest winds. Up to 15cm is expected there as well and warnings are in place. More details later tonight.............