HURON COUNTY – Environment Canada has issued a snow squall watch for Huron County this morning.
Overnight rain has affected school and bus schedules across the county as follows:
- Clinton PS is open for those who can make it safely but buses are cancelled;
- Hullett PS, Huron Centennial PS, Holmesville PS buses cancelled and school closed to students, Huron Christian School is closed, CHSS has no buses running but school open for study purposes;
- All buses to St. Anne’s and St. Joseph’s are cancelled and the schools are closed to student. Swim meet is also cancelled;
- Seaforth PS and St. James have no buses running, but the schools are open for those who can get there safely. Seaforth Soar Gifted Program is cancelled;
- In Goderich and Area, all rural buses and all specialized transportation vehicles have been cancelled. Colborne PS will remain open for students that can arrive safely. For Goderich PS, St. Mary’s School and GDCI – 7/8 Program, the in-town buses are running and the schools will remain open for students that can arrive safely. Goderich District Collegiate Institute has no scheduled classes. The school will remain open for study purposes only;
- No rural buses or specialized vehicles are running in southern parts of Huron County. Bluewater Coast Elementary in Hensall , Stephen Central PS, St. Boniface in Zurich , Our Lady of Mount Carmel , Exeter Elementary, Precious Blood South Huron District High School and SHDHS 7-8 Campus will remain open for those who can get there safely;
- Howick Central PS is closed; and
- In the North Huron region, all Montgomery buses and specialized transportation vehicles have been cancelled. As a result: Brookside PS, Sacred Heart School in Wingham, and Maitland River Elementary School (Wingham campus and Turnberry campus) is closed; and FE Madill School (7-12) will remain open for study purposes only.
Much colder Arctic air being ushered into the regions in the wake of a sharp Arctic cold front will make conditions favourable for the development of snow squalls off of Lake Huron beginning this evening and Georgian Bay on Wednesday.
Local snowfall amounts of 15 cm per 12 hours will be possible in the strongest snowsquall. Strong westerly winds tonight and then northwesterly winds on Wednesday will result in very low to possibly nil visibility in blowing snow.
Driving conditions are expected to deteriorate quickly beginning tonight and become hazardous. Rapidly accumulating snow on untreated roads and very low to at times nil visibility in bursts of heavy snow and blowing snow are expected.
A winter storm centre over Northern Lake Michigan will drag a sharp Arctic cold front east across Southern Ontario as the storm centre itself tracks across Northeastern Ontario into Quebec.
