Welcome to the Ontario Storm Chaser AKA. OSC. Anyways this site will be for weather in and around Canada and the United States. Hurricane information, tornadoes and everything severe weather. Anyways my name is Matt Horton and I live in Tottenham, Ontario, im 19 years old and love severe weather. And one day would love to see a tornado or experience a Hurricane. There is a blog from anybody that wishes to talk weather.

Sorry about the long lay off and not editing the site things have been very busy over the past month or so. Anyways I'm going to try and get things back up and running in the next month as tornado season approaches. Already we have had a Tornado Watch in the Windsor area so hopefully that is a sign of things to come.

A winter warning has been issued been Environment Canada for much of Southern Ontario. Here is what the warning is stating.

..Snow arriving tonight then mixed with freezing rain Sunday..

This is a warning that dangerous winter weather conditions are imminent or occurring in these regions. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for updated statements.



A major winter storm over Colorado is tracking northeastward towards southern Ontario. Snow is expected to arrive over southwestern Ontario by early this evening then become mixed with freezing rain and ice pellets. The wintery mix of precipitation will move east towards cottage country and the greater Toronto area tonight with the majority of the freezing rain and ice pellets falling on Sunday.

5 centimetres of snow will likely fall over southwestern Ontario by Sunday morning before the precipitation changes over to rain while close to 15 centimetres is expected over the Niagara Escarpment. The greater Toronto area will see 10 centimetres of snow before the snow ice pellets and freezing rain changes over to rain Sunday afternoon.

East of the line extending from Midland to Peterborough the precipitation will remain frozen. As a result the snowfall amounts will be higher with 5 to 10 centimetres falling tonight and another 10 to 15 Sunday. The snow will become mixed with freezing rain and ice pellets Sunday night.

Regions over eastern Ontario including Ottawa and Gatineau will not see snow beginning until Sunday morning with the heaviest snow falling Sunday night into Monday morning. The snow will be mixed with ice pellets and possibly freezing rain especially in the Ottawa Valley. Snowfall amounts of 10 to 15 centimetres is possible by Monday morning with an additional 10 to 15 by Monday evening.

Travel will be dangerous across Ontario as the snow may possibly be heavy at times which can cause brief whiteout conditions. Furthermore roads will be snow covered and slippery due to freezing rain and ice pellets.

At this point in time there is still uncertainty in the track of the low. If the low tracks further north a higher percentage of the precipitation will fall as rain. Alternately if the low tracks further south the snowfall amounts will be higher than currently indicated in the forecast.

Environment Canada will continue to monitor the situation as new information arrives.

This map will update as warnings and watchs are issued I think.

Anyways here is thhe video of the snowqualls from yesterday. Not very good it was a lot harder then what the video shows. Anyways Enjoy.

As temperatures drop this evening that will bring in some snowqualls. Some of these snowquall could put down as much as 15-20cm of snow. Hopefully tonight I can get a camera on this qualls tonight and it should make great video. Anyways here are a couple of weather models regarding tonight.

GFS 200mb wind speed (knots) 18 hour

GFS 850mb wind speeds (knots) 18 hour

12 hour precipation type 4 pan