{"id":36562,"date":"2024-01-12T15:09:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T15:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/?p=36562"},"modified":"2024-01-12T19:25:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T19:25:26","slug":"snowstorm-advisory-issued-for-hamilton-on-friday-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/hamilton\/snowstorm-advisory-issued-for-hamilton-on-friday-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowstorm advisory issued for Hamilton on Friday evening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Break out the shovels: Hamilton is about to get hit with its first true snowstorm of the winter season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/city\/pages\/on-77_metric_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weather advisory<\/a> has been issued by Environment Canada explaining that Hamilton could see between 5 to 10 cm of snowfall beginning Friday evening, with peak snowfall rates of 2 to 5 cm per hour.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The snowfall will be accompanied by strong gusts of wind up to 70 km\/h creating reduced visibility and difficult travel conditions for drivers and pedestrians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, the snow may transition to periods of rain as temperatures rise above freezing throughout the evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Winter storm forecast in Ontario; Environment Canada warns Hamilton-area residents: &#39;Avoid travel&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AqfzT0Jvlk\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/AqfzT0Jvlk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HamOnt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#HamOnt<\/a><\/p>&mdash; CBC Hamilton (@CBCHamilton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBCHamilton\/status\/1745814450941092245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 12, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Environment Canada advises Hamiltonians to avoid travel if possible, and to take extra care when walking or driving in affected areas with hazardous weather conditions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The weekend\u2019s weather forecast also indicates continues periods of snowfall through both Saturday and Sunday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See more on the Environment Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/city\/pages\/on-77_metric_e.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Break out the shovels: Hamilton is about to get hit with its first true snowstorm of the winter season.&nbsp; A weather advisory has been issued by Environment Canada explaining that Hamilton could se...","protected":false},"author":258,"featured_media":36565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8065],"tags":[146,2403,4280,19,20,21,97,246,798,6444,1283],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/storm.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/258"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36566,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36562\/revisions\/36566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cekan.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}