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- From: clarinews@clarinet.com ((Diehl/Standard Broadcast News))
- Newsgroups: ont.conditions
- Subject: Ontario Road Conditions Jan 25 8 am PST
- Keywords: canadian broadcast, general weather, weather
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 8:50:54 PST
- Location: canada
- ACategory: national
- Slugword: RoadReport
- Priority: regular
- ANPA: Wc: 765/691; Id: z3428; Sel: cnnw; Adate: N/A-1146aes; Ver: 0/2
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- SOUTH-WESTERN ONTARIO: INCLUDING WINDSOR, CHATHAM, LONDON, STRATFORD,
- WOODSTOCK, KITCHENER-WATERLOO, AND LAKE HURON AREAS.
- Light to moderate flurries and ground drifting is occurring over most
- areas in and around the London area and along the Lee of Lake Huron
- where the visibility is reduced to fair at times. As a result, highways
- in the Chatham - Windsor areas are bare with some light drifted
- sections. Elsewhere highways are bare with snowcovered, light drifted,
- slippery, slushy and icy sections including the K.W. and Hanlon
- Expressways.
- SOUTHERN GEORGIAN BAY-HURONIA REGION: INCLUDING BARRIE, ORILLIA, LAKE
- SIMCOE, COLLINGWOOD, OWEN SOUND AND MIDLAND AREAS.
- Light to moderate snow and snow squalls are occurring in most areas
- and has reduced the visibility to fair at times. All main highways are
- snowpacked to snowcovered with slushy or icy sections.
- SOUTH-CENTRAL ONTARIO: INCLUDING HAMILTON, NIAGARA, TORONTO, OSHAWA,
- GUELPH, ORANGEVILLE, LINDSAY, PETERBOROUGH AND PORT HOPE AREAS.
- Main highways throughout South-Central Ontario are mainly bare and
- wet except on Highways 12 & 48 and north of Highway 7 between Oshawa,
- Trenton Apsley and Washago where there are some snowcovered and slushy
- sections.
- EASTERN ONTARIO: INCLUDING TRENTON, BELLEVILLE, KINGSTON CORNWALL,
- OTTAWA AND ARNPRIOR AREAS.
- Main highways throughout Eastern Ontario are bare and wet with
- lightly snowcovered, slushy and icy sections.
- CENTRAL ONTARIO: INCLUDING PARRY SOUND, MUSKOKA, HUNTSVILLE,
- HALIBURTON, BANCROFT AND PEMBROKE AREAS.
- Light to moderate snow continues to fall over most of the Haliburton-
- Bancroft regions and has reduced the visibility to fair at times. All
- highways are snowcovered to snowpacked with some icy and partly
- snowcovered sections. Travelling through the Huntsville- Muskoka's,
- drivers will encounter bare to partly snowcovered, snowpacked and icy
- conditions on Highways 11 & 69. Those using Highways 35 or 60 will have
- mainly snowpacked conditions. Less travelled routes are snowpacked with
- icy sections.
-
- OVERVIEW OF MAJOR ROUTES
- QEW - Bare and wet.
- 400 - Bare and wet to Highway 9 and becoming bare and wet with
- snowcovered, slushy and icy sections towards Barrie and Coldwater.
- 401 - EAST OF TORONTO - Mainly bare and wet with some icy spots
- between Kingston and the Ontario-Quebec border.
- 401 - WEST OF TORONTO - Mainly bare and wet with slushy or icy
- sections from west of Kitchener to Rodney and then bare wet through the
- Chatham-Windsor areas.
- 402 - Bare and wet with light snowcovered, slushy and icy sections.
- 403 - Bare and wet.
- 404 - Bare and wet.
- 417 - Bare and wet with slushy and icy strips.
- 11 - TORONTO TO NORTH BAY - Bare and wet to Highway 9 and becoming
- bare and wet with snowcovered, snowpacked and icy sections to the North
- Bay area.
- 17 - HAWKESBURY TO PETAWAWA - Bare and wet with slushy and icy
- strips.
- 69 - Bare and wet with snowpacked and icy sections.
-
-
- NORTHERN ONTARIO:
- NORTH BAY-NIPISSING REGIONS: Light snow continues to fall south of
- North Bay and some light drifting is occurring over most areas.Highway
- 11 north and south of North Bay is bare and wet with snowpacked,
- snowcovered, slushy and icy sections while Highway 17 east and west is
- bare and wet with snowpacked with slushy sections.
- NEW LISKEARD-MATHESON-TIMMINS REGIONS: Highway 11 from Latchford to
- Matheson is mainly bare with some snowpacked strips. Highway 101 is bare
- to lightly snowcovered and snowpacked with some icy sections through
- Timmins. Highway 144 south to Sudbury is partly snowcovered to
- snowpacked.
- COCHRANE-HEARST-KAPUSKASING REGIONS: All main highways are generally
- bare with some snowpacked strips.
- SUDBURY-ALGOMA-NICKEL BELT REGIONS: All main highways are bare and
- wet.
- SAULT STE MARIE-WAWA-MARATHON REGIONS: Highway 17 east of the Soo is
- bare and wet with some snowpacked or partly snowcovered spots through
- Echo Bay. From north of the Soo to Wawa 17 is bare to lightly
- snowcovered. Beyond Wawa it is bare with partly snowcovered and
- snowpacked sections. Remaining highways are snowpacked with icy and
- partly snowcovered sections.
- NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO:
- NIPIGON-THUNDER BAY-ATIKOKAN REGIONS: All main highways are bare with
- the odd icy section east of Thunder Bay.
- FORT FRANCIS-RAINY RIVER-ATIKOKAN-REGIONS: All main highways are
- bare.
- SECONDARY HIGHWAYS IN NORTHERN AND NORTH-WESTERN ONTARIO.
- Secondary highways are mainly bare to snowcovered and snowpacked with
- icy sections.
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