Environment Canada issues travel advisory for Hamilton as freeze expected to follow rain

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After a time of rainfall prompted flood warnings, Environment Canada forecast freezing temperatures and issued a question advisory for Hamilton, Niagara and overmuch of confederate Ontario.

Icy and slippery conditions are forecast to statesman Thursday morning

Justin Chandler · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 05, 2025 6:09 PM EST | Last Updated: March 5

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Environment Canada warns question could go hazardous connected Thursday arsenic temperatures driblet beneath freezing. (Davepark astatine English Wikipedia)

After a time of rainfall prompted flood warnings, Environment Canada forecast freezing temperatures and issued a question advisory for Hamilton, Niagara and overmuch of confederate Ontario.  

Starting precocious Wednesday and continuing Thursday, "travel whitethorn beryllium hazardous owed to abrupt changes successful the weather," Environment Canada said Wednesday afternoon.

"Surfaces specified arsenic highways, roads, walkways and parking tons whitethorn go icy and slippery."

The bureau besides warned of winds gusting up to 80 kilometres per hr and reduced visibility owed to snow.

In Hamilton, snowfall is forecast to extremity precocious day Thursday. 

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