Extreme Cold Warning Issued
Environment Canada(Locations listed below description)
Extreme cold conditions expected tonight.
Hazard: Wind chill values near minus 30.
Timing: Tonight into Wednesday morning.
Extreme cold puts everyone at risk.
Risks are greater for Young children, older adults, people with chronic illnesses, people working or exercising outdoors, and those without proper shelter.
Watch for cold related symptoms: Shortness of breath, chest pain, muscle pain and weakness, numbness and colour change in fingers and toes.
Cover up. Frostbite can develop within minutes on exposed skin, especially with wind chill.
Keep emergency supplies in your vehicle such as extra blankets and jumper cables.
If it's too cold for you to stay outside, it's too cold for your pet to stay outside.
Extreme cold warnings are issued when very cold temperatures or wind chill creates an elevated risk to health such as frost bite and hypothermia.
Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada.
To report severe weather in Ontario, send an email to onstorm@ec.gc.ca or tweet reports using #ONStorm.
ISSUED:
- Angus
- Arthur
- Aylmer
- Brantford
- Caledon
- Caledonia
- Cambridge
- Chatham-Kent
- City Of Hamilton
- County of Brant
- Delhi
- Dundalk
- Dunnville
- Eastern Elgin County
- Eastern Lambton County
- Eastern Middlesex County
- Erin
- Essex County
- Grand Valley
- Guelph
- Haldimand
- Halton Hills
- Hanover
- Innisfil
- Kitchener
- Komoka
- Leamington
- Listowel
- London
- Mansfield
- Milton
- Milverton
- Mitchell
- Mount Forest
- New Tecumseth
- Norfolk
- Northern Dufferin County
- Northern Perth County
- Northern Wellington County
- Orangeville
- Oxford County
- Parkhill
- Petrolia
- Pinery Park
- Region of Waterloo
- Rodney
- Rondeau Park
- Sarnia
- Shedden
- Shelburne
- Simcoe
- Southern Dufferin County
- Southern Grey County
- Southern Perth County
- Southern Wellington County
- St. Thomas
- Stratford
- Strathroy
- Tillsonburg
- Watford
- Western Elgin County
- Western Lambton County
- Western Middlesex County
- Windsor
- Woodstock