Ontario's Weather Is So Windy That Spots Are Getting Hit With Warnings Of Outages & More

There is going to be so much wind in Ontario that special weather statements and potential outage warnings are blasting through the province.

As of Thursday morning, Environment Canada issued several advisories across most of northern and southern Ontario, including some wind warnings in spots like Barrie, Sault Ste. Marie, the Greater Sudbury area, Burk's Falls, Wawa, Huron, Dufferin, North Bay, and Manitoulin.

The wind warnings are calling for strong gusts of 90 km/h that will start this morning and carry on until the evening. Due to these powerful winds, Environment Canada is calling for potential power outages.

There may also likely be some damage to roofs and windows, and loose items blowing about in the wind.

Special weather statements are in effect in cities like Toronto, Hamilton, Waterloo, Peterborough, London, and the Niagara region, where wind gusts between 70 to 90 km/h will blow all throughout the day, too.

Freezing drizzle advisories are also in effect for Peawanuck and Fort Hope, which could bring on some icy road and sidewalk conditions in these areas.

Last Saturday, on December 11, mighty winds between 70 to 100 km/h tore through parts of Ontario, which snapped large trees and left thousands of Ontarians without power. Hydro One called it "one of the worst wind storms" the province has had to deal with in the last few years.

Following this week and leading into the holidays, Toronto is forecasted to have a white Christmas this year as the 6ix is expected to get dumped with around 14 centimetres of snow by December 25.