Calgary emerges from deep freezes while winter intensifies elsewhere
Posted Jan 6, 2014 7:27 am.
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It might not be a chinook, but it’s definitely a warm-up people in and around Calgary will enjoy in the coming days.
After a bone chilling weekend, temperatures are expected to rise above zero Monday, making southern Alberta the envy of people in central and eastern Canada.
Tens of thousands of people woke up in Newfoundland in the dark, after a power plant went off line Sunday night.
People on the island are being asked to conserve energy as the island enter’s a fourth straight day of rolling blackouts, on Saturday morning, about 190,000 customers were without power.
Those headed to the airport for a flight or to pick somebody up are being urged to check with their carrier before heading out.
In Ottawa and Toronto, Environment Canada has issued both a flash freeze and a wind chill warning, with the wind chill falling to minus 40 overnight.
There are bitter cold conditions in Saskatchewan where a number of centres are reporting wind chills of minus 50; those headed out the door in Regina and Saskatoon were greeted with a temperature of minus 36.
