Weather warnings from Environment Canada blanketed most of the country Friday, one of the busiest travel days during the holiday season
British ColumbiaRapidly falling temperatures in Ontario and Quebec on Friday morning led to icy conditions, with rain turning to snow and the potential for flash freezes. High winds resulted in blowing snow across the region and near-whiteout conditions on many major roads.
The winter blast also affected air travel as passengers hoped to head home for the holidays or embark on a vacation. About 38 per cent of scheduled flights out of Toronto’s Pearson Airport were cancelled as of 4 p.m. Friday, including all of WestJet’s flights, which were cancelled pro-actively late Thursday. WestJet also cancelled all 140 flights in and out of Hamilton, Ottawa, Waterloo and Montreal and another 104 in B.C. out of Vancouver, Abbotsford, Victoria and Nanaimo.
Early afternoon Friday found him in the terminal at Pearson, munching a cookie and waiting a bit skeptically for a promised flight at 7 p.m. Sitting next to luggage filled with Christmas gifts, Heather Bailey said it would have been the first trip in two years where her parents could watch their grandchildren open stockings because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
On Friday, wind gusts hit 87 km/h at Billy Bishop Airport on the Toronto Islands and registered 119 km/h in Port Colborne, part of the region hit hard by the storm system off Lake Erie. The potential for damaging wind gusts in Southern Ontario and Quebec remains overnight, Mr. Cheng said, but the strong winds are expected to drop slightly to 70 km/h Saturday. The wind is supposed to taper off more by Christmas Day, but the chance of flurries remains.
BC Ferries says it tried and failed Friday morning to get the required number of crew members to operate both the Queen of New Westminster and the Coastal Renaissance, which led the agency to cancel eight sailings between Metro Vancouver and Southern Vancouver Island that afternoon and evening.
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