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- From: clarinews@clarinet.com ((Diehl/Standard Broadcast News))
- Newsgroups: ont.conditions
- Subject: Ontario Road Conditions Dec 31 4 pm EST
- Keywords: canadian broadcast, general weather, weather
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 16:03:40 EST
- Location: ontario
- ACategory: national
- Slugword: RoadReport
- Priority: regular
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- SOUTH-WESTERN ONTARIO: INCLUDING WINDSOR, CHATHAM, LONDON, STRATFORD,
- WOODSTOCK, KITCHENER-WATERLOO, AND LAKE HURON AREAS. IN SOUTH-WESTERN
- ONTARIO, VISIBILITY IS GOOD AND ALL HIGHWAYS ARE CLEAR.
- SOUTHERN GEORGIAN BAY-HURONIA REGION: INCLUDING BARRIE, ORILLIA, LAKE
- SIMCOE, COLLINGWOOD, OWEN SOUND AND MIDLAND AREAS. IN THE SOUTHERN
- GEORGIAN BAY-HURONIA REGION ALL MAIN HIGHWAYS, INCLUDING THE 400, ARE
- CLEAR.
- SOUTH-CENTRAL ONTARIO: INCLUDING HAMILTON, NIAGARA, TORONTO, OSHAWA,
- GUELPH, ORANGEVILLE, LINDSAY, PETERBOROUGH AND PORT HOPE AREAS. ALL
- HIGHWAYS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ONTARIO ARE CLEAR.
- CLOSURES NOTE: HIGHWAY 401 WESTBOUND LANES ARE CLOSED AT NEWTONVILLE,
- EAST OF MORGANS CORNER RD DUE TO A SEVERE MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT. EASTERN
- ONTARIO: INCLUDING TRENTON, BELLEVILLE, KINGSTON CORNWALL, OTTAWA AND
- ARNPRIOR AREAS.
- IN THE TRENTON-KINGSTON REGION, ALL HIGHWAYS, INCLUDING THE 401, ARE
- CLEAR. IN THE OTTAWA-CORNWALL REGION, ALL HIGHWAYS ARE BARE TO CENTRE-
- BARE WITH SLUSH AND ICE ON THE HIGH SIDES OF CURVES, HOWEVER THE 401 IS
- CLEAR.
- CENTRAL ONTARIO: INCLUDING PARRY SOUND, MUSKOKA, HUNTSVILLE,
- HALIBURTON, BANCROFT AND PEMBROKE AREAS.
- IN THE BANCROFT-HALIBURTON REGION, MAIN HIGHWAYS ARE BARE WITH
- SLUSHY, CENTRE-BARE AND ICY SECTIONS, WHILE SECONDARIES ARE BARE WITH
- CENTRE-BARE, SNOW-PACKED, SLUSHY AND ICY SECTIONS. IN THE HUNTSVILLE-
- MUSKOKA REGION, HIGHWAYS 11, 69, 35 AND 60 ARE CLEAR, WHILE SECONDARIES
- ARE BARE WITH CENTRE-BARE, SNOW-PACKED, ICY AND SLUSHY SECTIONS.
- OVERVIEW OF MAJOR ROUTES
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- QEW - CLEAR.
- 400 - CLEAR.
- 401 - EAST OF TORONTO - CLEAR. CLOSURES NOTE: HIGHWAY 401 WESTBOUND
- LANES ARE CLOSED AT NEWTONVILLE, EAST OF MORGANS CORNER RD DUE TO A
- SEVERE MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT. WEST OF TORONTO - CLEAR. 402 - CLEAR.
- 404 - CLEAR.
- 417 - BARE WITH CENTRE-BARE, ICY AND SLUSHY SECTIONS.
- 11 - TORONTO TO NORTH BAY - CLEAR ALL THE WAY TO NORTH BAY WITH SLUSHY
- SECTIONS NEAR NORTH BAY. 17 - HAWKESBURY TO PETAWAWA - BARE WITH CENTRE-
- BARE, SLUSHY AND ICY SECTIONS. 69 - BARE ALL THE WAY TO BRITT, BECOMING
- BARE TO CENTRE-BARE AND VERY ICY TO SUDBURY.
- NORTHERN ONTARIO: INCLUDING NORTH BAY, SUDBURY, TIMMINS, COCHRANE,
- NEW LISKEARD AND SAULT STE. MARIE AREAS. IN THE NORTH BAY REGION,
- HIGHWAYS 11S, 17 AND 63 ARE BARE WITH SLUSHY SECTIONS, SNOW-PACKED
- SECTIONS ARE ALSO ON 17W. HIGHWAY 11N IS BARE TO CENTRE-BARE WITH SNOW-
- COVERED, SNOW-PACKED AND SLUSHY SECTIONS. IN THE SUDBURY REGION, HIGHWAY
- 69 TO THE SOUTH IS BARE TO CENTRE- BARE AND VERY ICY, WHILE TO THE NORTH
- IT IS BARE TO CENTRE-BARE AND SLUSHY; 17E IS BARE WITH SLUSHY SECTIONS
- IN PASSING LANES WHILE 17W IS BARE TO CENTRE-BARE WITH SNOW-PACKED AND
- SLUSHY SECTIONS; 144N IS CENTRE-BARE, SNOW-PACKED TO SNOW-COVERED; 108
- IS BARE TO CENTRE- BARE WITH SNOW-PACKED SECTIONS AND HIGHWAY 6 IS
- CENTRE-BARE TO SLUSHY WITH ICY SECTIONS. IN THE NEW LISKEARD REGION,
- HIGHWAY 101 FROM MATHESON TO FOLEYET IS SNOW-COVERED TO SNOW-PACKED,
- WHILE THE VISIBILITY IS REDUCED TO FAIR AT TIMES DUE TO MODERATE
- SNOWFALL. HIGHWAY 11 FROM MATHESON TO LATCHFORD IS SNOW-COVERED AND
- SNOW-PACKED WITH LIGHT DRIFTING SNOW; AS WELL AS ICY CONDITIONS IN THE
- ENGLEHART AND KENOGAMI AREAS WHERE VISIBILITY IS FAIR TO POOR AT TIMES
- DUE TO LIGHT TO MODERATE DRIFTING SNOW. HIGHWAY 144 IS SNOW-COVERED AND
- SNOW-PACKED. VISIBILITY IN THE COCHRANE REGION IS GOOD BUT POOR IN THE
- KAPUSKASING AREA DUE TO MODERATE TO HEAVY DRIFTING, ALL HIGHWAYS ARE
- SNOW-PACKED TO LIGHTLY SNOW-COVERED EXCEPT FOR SOME BARE SECTIONS IN
- HEARST AND KAPUSKASING. IN THE SAULT STE. MARIE REGION, HIGHWAY 17, EAST
- TO BLIND RIVER IS BARE TO SLUSHY, WHILE NORTH TO AGAWA IS BARE TO
- CENTRE-BARE AND SLUSHY, THEN WEST TO MARATHON IS SNOW-PACKED TO SNOW-
- COVERED. NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO: INCLUDING THUNDER BAY, NIPIGON, DRYDEN,
- KENORA, AND FORT FRANCES AREAS. HIGHWAY 11 FROM LONGLAC TO THUNDER BAY IS
- BARE WITH SNOW-PACKED, SNOW-COVERED AND ICY SECTIONS, WHILE WEST TO
- ATIKOKAN IT IS SNOW- PACKED WITH ICY SECTIONS. HIGHWAY 17 FROM TERRACE
- BAY TO THUNDER BAY, AND 61 TO THE BORDER ARE BARE WITH SNOW-PACKED,
- SNOW-COVERED AND ICY SECTIONS, WHILE WEST TO IGNACE 17 IS CENTRE-BARE TO
- SNOW- PACKED.IN THE KENORA REGION ALL MAIN HIGHWAYS ARE SNOW-PACKED AND
- ICY. SECONDARY HIGHWAYS IN NORTHERN AND NORTH-WESTERN ONTARIO.
- SECONDARY HIGHWAYS THROUGHOUT NORTHERN AND NORTH-WESTERN ONTARIO ARE
- MAINLY SNOWPACKED TO SNOWCOVERED WITH ICY SECTIONS.
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