Several weather alerts in effect for northwestern Ontario due to rain, freezing rain and flurries

More than a twelve upwind alerts are successful effect crossed northwestern Ontario owed to dense rainfall, freezing rainfall and flurries expected from Friday day into Saturday night, with immoderate areas nether wintertime tempest watches.

In the Thunder Bay and Atikokan areas, rainfall combined with melting snowfall is expected, according to the statements issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada connected Friday. Between 10 and 20 millimetres of rainfall is possible.

"The frozen crushed has a reduced quality to sorb this rainfall," said the statements. "With thunderstorms possible, section rainfall amounts could transcend 20 millimetres implicit immoderate areas. The rainfall volition modulation to flurries Saturday nighttime arsenic temperatures driblet to beneath freezing implicit the area."

The bureau warns that localized flooding successful low-lying areas and h2o pooling connected roads is possible.

Meanwhile, communities further westbound are nether wintertime tempest watches, including Dryden, Ear Falls, Kenora, Fort Frances, Red Lake, and areas adjacent Pikangikum First Nation. 

Total snowfall amounts adjacent 15 centimetres are imaginable aboriginal Saturday greeting into Saturday night, with mediocre visibility, blowing snowfall and a hazard of freezing rain, the statements say.

"A Colorado debased could bring a wintry premix of precipitation crossed the portion connected Saturday. The precipitation is expected to statesman arsenic rainfall successful immoderate areas with amounts of 10 [or] 20 millimetres possible," said the statements.

"The rainfall is expected to become mixed with crystal pellets oregon freezing rain, past modulation to snowfall which could beryllium dense astatine times."

Meanwhile, the Manitouwadge and Hornepayne areas, arsenic good arsenic Pickle Lake, Sioux Lookout, Eabametoong First Nation and different communities further west are nether freezing rainfall warnings. These are acceptable to extremity Friday afternoon, arsenic the rainfall changes to showers with warming temperatures.

A afloat database of upwind alerts tin beryllium recovered on Environment and Climate Change Canada's website.