WINTER WEATHER HAS ARRIVED BRINGING LOCAL HEAVY SNOW THIS MORNING WITH SNOWSQUALLS BECOMING ENTRENCHED ACROSS THE DISTRICTS AS SEEN ON WEATHER RADAR AND WEB CAMERAS. WEATHER RADAR SHOWS THESE HEAVY FLURRIES AND SNOWSQUALLS ORGANIZING INTO TWO PRIMARY BANDS EARLY THIS MORNING WHICH WILL PERSIST THIS AFTERNOON. THE FIRST SNOWSQUALL FROM GEORGIAN BAY IS COMING ASHORE FROM ABOUT MEAFORD EAST TO THE COLLINGWOOD AREA AND EXTENDS INLAND TO JUST WEST OF BARRIE DOWN TO ABOUT ALLISTON. THIS SNOWSQUALL MAY EDGE EASTWARD BACK INTO BARRIE AND POSSIBLY THE MIDLAND AREA THIS AFTERNOON AS THE WINDS BECOME A LITTLE MORE NORTHWESTERLY. A SECOND SNOWSQUALL EXTENDS FROM OVER SOUTHERN LAKE HURON INLAND FROM NEAR GRAND BEND ACROSS EXETER..ST MARYS..THEN TO THE LONDON TO INGERSOLL DISTRICTS. THIS SNOWSQUALL IS CROSSING HIGHWAY 401 FROM LONDON TO WOODSTOCK RESULTING IN LOCALLY HAZARDOUS WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS TODAY. THIS SNOWSQUALL WILL ALSO REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY BEFORE STARTING TO DRIFT EAST AND WEAKEN THIS AFTERNOON. LOCAL SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF NEAR 15 CM ARE QUITE POSSIBLE IN THE HEAVIEST SNOWSQUALLS. SOME MELTING OF THE SNOW ON RELATIVELY WARM GROUND MAY REDUCE ACTUAL ACCUMULATIONS A LITTLE. MOTORISTS PLANNING TRAVEL TO THESE REGIONS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR DANGEROUS WINTER DRIVING CONDITIONS DUE TO VERY SLIPPERY SNOW COVERED OR SLUSHY ROADS..BLACK ICE..AND LOCAL NEAR ZERO VISIBILITIES IN BURSTS OF HEAVY SNOW AT TIMES. ALLOW MUCH EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION AS A RESULT. SNOWSQUALLS WILL BEGIN TO WEAKEN TO SCATTERED FLURRIES BY THIS EVENING AS THE WINDS DIMINISH AND THE AIRMASS STABILIZES THANKS TO AN APPROACHING HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE.

Making snowmen is great fun with the kids and having a snowball fight

Snow... I hate driving in it.