Wednesday Morning News – January 31

Jan 31, 2018 @ 07:38

Weather

Today	Periods of snow. Local amount 5 cm. Wind south 30 km/h gusting to 60 becoming west 40 gusting to 60 near noon. High minus 1 with temperature falling to minus 7 this afternoon.
Tonight	Mainly cloudy with 60 percent chance of flurries. Wind west 40 km/h gusting to 60 becoming northwest 20 gusting to 40 this evening. Low minus 21. Wind chill minus 29.

A strong Alberta clipper, passing by to the north of the region, will bring close to 10 to 15 cm of snow to the regions near Eastern Lake Superior and the North Channel today. Poor winter driving conditions are expected today. Motorists should allow extra time to reach their destination. The snow will taper off to flurries as winds become more northerly in the wake of the clipper late today.

 

Roads

	2018-01-31 – early morning report
101	Timmins to Highway 144	snow covered	2018-01-31 6:52
101	Highway 144 to Shawmere River	snow covered	2018-01-31 6:33
101	Shawmere River to Highway 651	snow covered	2018-01-31 5:20
101	Highway 651 to Wawa	snow covered with snow packed sections. Poor visibility.	2018-01-31 5:24
129	Thessalon to Aubrey Falls	snow covered	2018-01-31 5:21
129	Aubrey Falls to Chapleau	snow covered	2018-01-31 5:20
17	Sault Saint Marie North Limits to Montreal River Bridge	snow covered with bare and wet road, snow packed sections.	2018-01-31 5:23
17	Montreal River Bridge to Wawa	snow covered with snow packed sections. Poor visibility.	2018-01-31 5:24
17	Wawa to Paint Lake Rd	snow covered with snow packed sections. Poor visibility.	2018-01-31 5:24
17	Paint Lake Rd to Southwest of White River	snow covered with snow packed sections. Poor visibility.	2018-01-31 5:24
519	Highway 17 – Dambrossio Township to Green Lake Road – Dunphy Township	snow covered with snow packed sections. Poor visibility.	2018-01-31 5:24
547	Highway 101 to Hawk Junction	snow covered with snow packed sections. Poor visibility.	2018-01-31 5:24
631	White River to Highway 11	snow covered with snow packed sections.	2018-01-31 5:24
651	Highway 101 to Missinabi	snow packed	2018-01-31 5:20

 

News Tidbits – The Wawa EDC is hosting the RAIN Workshop today. Unfortunately, the stormy weather obscured the lunar eclipse this morning. Stats Canada has launched an anonymous online survey last week asking about cannabis purchases – quanity purchased, price and ‘value’ how good it was.

 

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