Flash freeze warnings covered most of Ottawa-Gatineau area

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 06, 2025 7:01 AM EST | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

A rainy, foggy Thursday greeting successful the Ottawa-Gatineau area turned icy aboriginal on, according to Environment Canada.

What was archetypal a mix of upwind alerts astir fog, rainfall and a abrupt driblet successful somesthesia had by 9 a.m become flash frost warnings crossed eastbound Ontario. Around 12:15 p.m. it extended into the occidental portion of the Outaouais, starting astir astatine Quyon.

The frost is expected to scope communities including Pembroke, Shawville and Kingston successful the afternoon, past scope the superior by precocious day oregon aboriginal evening.

Petawawa was forecast to spell from astir 3 C astatine noon to –8 C astatine midnight, for example. At midnight its upwind chill is expected to marque it consciousness like –17.

"Things are getting icy retired there," posted East Region provincial police astir 10 a.m. By noon, temperatures had started to driblet astatine immoderate section upwind stations without getting beneath freezing and by 2 p.m., Trenton had dropped to –1 C.

Five to 10 centimetres of snowfall is besides expected Thursday successful occidental communities specified arsenic Bancroft and Deep River.

English schoolhouse buses are cancelled Thursday successful parts of Renfrew County and north Hastings County.

Wednesday was the archetypal time this twelvemonth that the somesthesia astatine Ottawa's airdrome didn't dip beneath freezing. It bottomed retired astatine precisely zero degrees.