Friday Morning News – December 8

Dec 8, 2017 @ 07:48

Weather – Mainly cloudy. 40 percent chance of flurries this morning and early this afternoon. Temperature steady near -12. Tonight will be mainly cloudy with a low of -18.

Marine – Freezing Spray Warning. Wind north 20 knots diminishing to north 10 near noon then veering to northeast 10 early this evening. Wind increasing to northeast 20 near midnight and to northeast 25 Saturday morning. Wind backing to north 20 near noon Saturday then to northwest 15 Saturday evening. Waves 2 metres subsiding to less than one half metre this afternoon then building to one overnight.

Roads

	2017-12-08 – early morning report
101	Timmins to Highway 144	partly snow covered with snow covered sections.	2017-12-08 4:16
101	Highway 144 to Shawmere River	partly snow covered	2017-12-08 2:24
101	Shawmere River to Highway 651	snow covered with snow packed sections.	2017-12-08 5:25
101	Highway 651 to Wawa	bare and wet road with partly snow packed, snow packed sections.	2017-12-08 5:23
129	Thessalon to Aubrey Falls	snow covered	2017-12-08 5:20
129	Aubrey Falls to Chapleau	snow covered with snow packed sections.	2017-12-08 5:25
17	Sault Saint Marie North Limits to Montreal River Bridge	snow covered with bare and wet road, snow packed sections. Poor visibility.	2017-12-08 5:22
17	Montreal River Bridge to Wawa	partly snow packed with bare and wet road, snow packed sections.	2017-12-08 5:23
17	Wawa to Paint Lake Rd	bare and wet road	2017-12-08 5:23
17	Paint Lake Rd to Southwest of White River	bare and wet road with partly snow covered sections.	2017-12-08 5:24
519	Highway 17 – Dambrossio Township to Green Lake Road – Dunphy Township	bare and wet road	2017-12-08 5:23
547	Highway 101 to Hawk Junction	bare and wet road with partly snow packed, snow packed sections.	2017-12-08 5:23
631	White River to Highway 11	snow covered with partly snow packed, snow packed sections.	2017-12-08 5:24
651	Highway 101 to Missinabi	snow covered with snow packed sections.	2017-12-08 5:25

 

News Tidbits – Ontario511 reports that Highway 17 was closed last night for about half an hour at the Montreal River Bridge for a disabled vehicle.

If you are heading to the Soo today for shopping – you may want to consider staying to see Smokies and the Bear. They are playing at the Gore Street Cafe.

Did you know? In Flanders Fields, by Canadian John McCrae, was published for the first time in Punch magazine, in the December 8th, 1915 issue.

“John McCrae’s Flanders Fields poem was first published anonymously in the December 8th 1915 issue of the British PUNCH magazine and is credited with the inspiration for adopting the “poppy” as Canada’s official Flower of Remembrance, which is also recognized in Canada, the U.S., France, Britain and other Commonwealth countries including Australia and New Zealand.” (http://www.flandersfieldsmusic.com/johnmccrae-bio.html)