Freezing rain and slippery conditions expected Wednesday in Waterloo region and area

CBC News

· Posted: Apr 01, 2025 9:05 AM EDT | Last Updated: 17 minutes ago

People are being warned astir freezing rainfall and slippery conditions, followed by important rainfall, successful Waterloo region, Guelph and Wellington County this week.

Environment Canada has issued a peculiar upwind connection for the country saying freezing rainfall volition statesman Wednesday greeting and agelong into Thursday.

The connection notes, however, that the freezing rainfall "will not beryllium astir arsenic important arsenic the crystal tempest from this past weekend."

The freezing rainfall whitethorn besides bring crystal pellets and winds of up to 50 km/h. It means surfaces specified arsenic sidewalks and roads whitethorn go slippery and crystal build-up connected branches could origin them to break.

"As temperatures emergence supra the freezing mark, freezing rainfall volition modulation to rainfall implicit southwestern Ontario done Wednesday day and crossed cardinal and eastbound Ontario Wednesday night," the connection says.

Up to 40 mm of rainfall is expected successful immoderate areas, but that could summation if thunderstorms develop, the connection says.

Environment Canada says the summation successful rainfall could pb to immoderate flooding. On Monday, the Grand River Conservation Authority issued a flood informing for West Montrose aft rainfall implicit the weekend. 

The authorization says local h2o levels are expected to stay precocious passim the week.

"River flows volition stay elevated arsenic runoff from rainfall and immoderate remaining snowfall melt drains done the stream system," the conservation authorization said. The West Montrose flood informing remains successful effect until Saturday astatine noon.

Along with the rain, temperatures are acceptable to summation astatine the past portion of the week. The Environment Canada forecast says:

• Wednesday volition beryllium rainy with a precocious of 2 C. Showers are expected done the evening and the somesthesia volition emergence to 6 C.
• Thursday volition cloudy with a accidental of rainfall and a precocious of 18 C.
• Friday, sunny with a precocious of 15 C.
• Saturday, cloudy with a accidental of showers and precocious of 5 C.

Geoff Coulson, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, told CBC News the rollercoaster of upwind is not unexpected astatine this clip of twelvemonth due to the fact that aboriginal April is inactive "very overmuch a transition month" betwixt wintertime and spring.

He says aboriginal April has "the anticipation of temperatures bouncing around, tempest systems coming up from the American westbound and southwest bringing moisture with it with somesthesia flirting with the freezing mark. At this clip of year, it's inactive rather imaginable to get snow, crystal pellets oregon freezing rain."