Local fire officials said the collision involved more than 70 vehicles and required a stretch of the highway to be shut down in both directions. “We have whiteout conditions right now — snow and blowing snow — we have zero visibility,” he said from the scene, where traffic was backed up in both directions. “The collisions that were involved were fender benders piling in to one another to the other to the other,” Schmidt said. Once the wind has died down completely, Cheng said deep cold is expected to set in across another large swath of the province. Further south, cities like Toronto can expect temperatures to dip below -15 C with wind chill values making conditions feel colder, he said.

Source: thestar February 25, 2019 16:36 UTC