Northwest Ontario in midst of wintry blast

Snow is pasted to my trail camera lens

Highways, schools and businesses were closed and the power was in and out most of the day for many places in Northwestern Ontario today. A cold front moving down from the Arctic collided with a balmy warm front that had settled over the Northwest for the last couple of weeks. It rained on Monday but then the temperature plummeted overnight and the rain turned to snow. We only got a couple of inches here in Nolalu but the big problem was very high winds, gusting up to 70 km-h. The storm has largely moved east now and the temperature is supposed to go into the cellar. Daytime highs a few days from now are expected to be just a miserly -15 C.