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TORONTO (AP) — Cleanup crews worked to get Canada’s largest city back to normal on Wednesday, a day after a torrential downpour flooded Toronto’s major roadways and left thousands without power.
A weather cancellation or delay is closure, cancellation, or delay of an institution, operation, or event as a result of inclement weather. Certain institutions, such as schools, are likely to close when bad weather, such as snow, flooding, air pollution , tropical cyclones , or extreme heat , causes power outages , or otherwise impedes public ...
Now, plans have shifted to make Friday the first day of classes at LR5 schools, and Oct. 11 will be used as a severe weather make-up day to compensate for Thursday, officials said. “We ...
Everyone is safe at UNC Asheville, the university’s chancellor said, but parts of campus are inaccessible and the storm “significantly compromised university infrastructure.”
As of early October 30, most of Southern Ontario was experiencing sustained winds of tropical storm force from Windsor to Ottawa, with gusts to 80 km/h (50 mph) or higher. One woman was killed after being struck by a piece of flying debris, a Staples Inc. sign, in the Junction neighbourhood in the west end of Toronto.
The Toronto observatory ended in 1853, but the colonial government of the province of Canada took over the service and continued collecting climate data. On May 1, 1871, the new Dominion of Canada established the Meteorological Service of Canada by providing a $5000 grant to Professor G. T. Kingston of the University of Toronto to establish a ...
Ernesto Morales, with the National Weather Service in San Juan, said between six to eight inches of rain are expected, with higher amounts in isolated areas. He also warned of hurricane-strength wind gusts as the storm is expected to hit northeast Puerto Rico and move across the U.S. territory late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Severe weather lashed New York state and Toronto on Tuesday. Nearly four inches of rain fell in pockets across Toronto, home to three million people, prompting flooding on Tuesday.