Winter storm watch for southern Ontario ends

According to the agency, a low coming from Texas will likely spread snow, ice pellets and blowing snow into the above regions Monday evening.

As December ticks down, eastern Canada from Ontario to the Maritimes is looking at snow and freezing rain. Those areas are expecting up to 35 cm of snow.

The wintry mix disrupted air travel and caused unsafe conditions on the roads.

Ontario Provincial Police said they had responded to more than 300 collisions since the storm began.

UPDATE (Monday, Dec. 28, 9:10 a.m. ET): Environment Canada downgraded their storm watch for Toronto and surrounding areas Monday morning.

If two centimetres of snow falls, the plows will head out to expressways.

Environment Canada added this is not a snowfall warning or winter storm warning because the threshold for snowfall is not expected to be 15 centimetres.

Seems like this past weekend’s freezing rain and dusting of snow were just a warm up – the first real storm of the season is about to hit.

Strong easterly winds gusting to 70 km/h are expected Monday evening and Monday night with gusts to 80 km/h possible near Lake Ontario. “We will be monitoring road conditions and will respond as necessary to the weather”, said spokesman Steve Johnston.