{"id":66119,"date":"2024-03-27T07:57:06","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=66119"},"modified":"2024-03-27T07:32:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T11:32:59","slug":"wednesday-morning-news-march-27-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/27\/wednesday-morning-news-march-27-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Morning News &#8211; March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weather: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Snow Squall Watch<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today &#8211; Flurries. Local amount 2 to 4 cm. Wind southwest 40 km\/h gusting to 60. High -1 with temperature falling to -4 this afternoon. Wind chill near -13. UV index 1 or low.<\/li>\n<li>Tonight &#8211; Flurries with risk of snow squalls. Local blowing snow. Local amount 10 to 15 cm. Wind west 30 km\/h gusting to 50. Temperature steady near -5. Wind chill near -14.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>If you are traveling today for Chris&#8217; Funeral and Celebration of Life, please be prepared for poor road and traveling conditions this afternoon and evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News Tidbits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SSM PUC was selected as the winner of the prestigious Innovation Excellence Award at this year\u2019s Electricity Distributors Association (EDA)\u2019s Awards Ceremony in Toronto. PUC&#8217;s commitment to innovation and excellence has been exemplified by its groundbreaking Sault Smart Grid (SSG) project. <span lang=\"EN-CA\">The Sault Smart Grid is the first community-wide smart grid system in Canada achieving energy savings of 2.7%, increased customer communications regarding outages, and increased reliability for customers. <\/span>Additionally, the implementation of SSG is leading to an annual reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 2,804 tonnes of carbon dioxide.<\/li>\n<li>The NWMO has submitted their 2023 annual report to the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada&#8217;s Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. <em>Creating the future together \u2014 Annual Report 2023<\/em> and, <em>Implementing Adaptive Phased Management 2024-28 is available on the nwmo.ca website<\/em>. You can also complete a survey &#8220;Help shape Canada&#8217;s plan&#8221; at (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwmo.ca\/Canadas-plan\/Implementing-Canadas-plan\/Have-your-say?_cldee=7Q1sAzfCi6c1pJYN1auWhIyUOgrmwCZkqRtNksUJjEPZQo_eIsTTlo6ALvrVY1Y8&amp;recipientid=contact-c0318804e506e111bec20050568e000d-e2550d1a4d754d75a7c9256c257551b3&amp;esid=cd6423d8-11ca-ee11-9079-6045bd5e3464\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather: Snow Squall Watch Today &#8211; Flurries. Local amount 2 to 4 cm. Wind southwest 40 km\/h gusting to 60. High -1 with temperature falling to -4 this afternoon. Wind chill near -13. UV index 1 or low. Tonight &#8211; Flurries with risk of snow squalls. Local blowing snow. Local amount 10 to 15 cm. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 14:07:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66152,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66119\/revisions\/66152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}