Rural schools closed and all bus routes cancelled in Thunder Bay, Ont., due to spring storm

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Rural schools are closed Friday successful Thunder Bay, Ont., and each schoolhouse autobus routes are cancelled successful the metropolis aft a dump of snowfall overnight. The snowfall is expected to proceed done to this evening.

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Olivia Levesque · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 28, 2025 6:47 AM EDT | Last Updated: 13 minutes ago

A schoolhouse autobus drives done a snowstorm.

Rural schools are closed Friday successful Thunder Bay, Ont., and each schoolhouse autobus routes are cancelled successful the metropolis arsenic a snowfall tempest makes it mode done the region.

Environment Canada has issued aggregate upwind alerts for the northwest, including snowfall warnings for Thunder Bay, Kenora, Dryden and Fort Frances areas. Snowfall is expected to proceed done to this evening.

The upwind bureau said full snowfall accumulations of 15 to 25 centimetres is expected. There's besides a risk of freezing rainfall adjacent the Minnesota border.

School closures today:

Lakehead District School Board has closed rural schools contiguous owed to upwind conditions. That includes Crestview, Five Mile, Gorham Ware, McKenzie, Nor'wester View, Kakabeka, Valley Central, and Whitefish Valley schools.
Public committee metropolis schools are unfastened successful Thunder Bay. As well, the Thunder Bay Catholic Board, French Catholic, and French nationalist schools are unfastened successful the city.

School autobus way cancellations:

Student Transportation Services of Thunder Bay has cancelled each schoolhouse autobus routes Friday.
More accusation tin beryllium recovered connected the Student Transportation Services of Thunder Bay website.

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