Snowfall warning in effect for Thunder Bay area

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 23, 2025 10:36 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Winter isn't done with Thunder Bay rather yet.

Environment Canada has issued a snowfall informing for the city, and areas on Lake Superior's northbound shore, with 15 to 25 centimetres of snowfall expected Sunday.

The informing is successful spot for:

• Thunder Bay;
• Kakabeka Falls;
• Marathon;
• Schreiber, and
• Nipigon areas.

"There's a upwind strategy that's approaching from Minnesota, presently benignant of moving northeast, and it's bringing a swath of snowfall with it," Jordan Nicholls, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said Sunday morning.

"That's going to scope Thunder Bay wrong the adjacent mates hours... Radar indicates that it's close connected the doorstep, adjacent the planetary border."

Nicholls said there's imaginable for reduced visibility astatine times.

"We're expecting amounts to benignant of beryllium highly-variable crossed the Thunder Bay country and the northbound shore," helium said "There volition beryllium a batch of influence, probably, from areas of higher terrain, which could person the higher extremity of the amounts, person to 25."

"For the Thunder Bay area, we're expecting determination successful the scope of 15 to 20 centimetres."

Warming temperatures to follow

In addition, Environment Canada has issued upwind advisories for the Mantiouwadge, Hornepayne, Ignace, Geraldton, Longlac, Gull Bay, Atikokan, and Beardmore areas, wherever up to 15 centimetres of snowfall is imaginable connected Sunday.

However, Environment Canada notes that "confidence successful nonstop snowfall amounts for this lawsuit is low" and it is imaginable that immoderate areas volition person successful excess of 15 centimetres. 

The bully quality is temperatures volition beryllium lukewarm successful the coming days.

"We're expecting a precocious possibly astir -1 oregon 0 (C) today, but aft this strategy moves retired and past looking up to the mediate of adjacent week, we're looking astatine temperatures that could beryllium astir 5 degrees oregon truthful for the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and mostly sunny skies," helium said. "We could see a ample information of it vanish by the mediate oregon extremity of this coming week."

More snowfall inactive possible

However, Nicholls said, much wintertime upwind whitethorn beryllium connected the way.

"Most of adjacent week looks reasonably quiet," helium said. "A few chances of flurries oregon showers successful the area, but thing significant."

However, Environment Canada is presently tackling different strategy that Nicholls said could impact "a ample information of Ontario."

"It volition astir apt bring the accidental of snowfall and possibly freezing rainfall to a batch of areas, including the northwest," helium said.

But that's not a guarantee.

"We're talking Friday, Saturday of adjacent week, truthful given that that's six-to-seven days out, there's a batch of uncertainty," helium said. "Details related to that are inactive precise sparse, obviously, due to the fact that it's a agelong ways out."

"But it's just to accidental that the northwest is astir apt not done with snowfall for this play conscionable yet."