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A familiar, snowy alert is colouring the weather map on the eastern end of Lake Ontario Tuesday.
Environment Canada first issued snow squall warnings from Kingston to Trenton, continuing out of the region to about Pickering.
The warning ended for Belleville and Trenton shortly after noon.
Westbound Highway 401 is closed at Wallbridge Loyalist Road because of several collisions involving about 50 vehicles and starting around 9:30 a.m., according to a social media post from the Ontario Provincial Police.
Drivers should follow detours south to Old Highway 2 and go to the Duncan McDonald Memorial Community Gardens arena on Couch Crescent on the Trenton waterfront if they’re stranded and need to warm up, OPP said.
Buses are also taking people from the highway crashes to the arena, police said.
The weaker local warning covers the Kingston and Napanee areas. It says to expect five to 10 centimetres of snow blown by gusts up to 50 km/h Tuesday morning and afternoon.
The warning for the south shore of Prince Edward County is for 10 to 20 centimetres of snow blown by gusts up to 70 km/h until early evening. School buses have been cancelled again in the county.
The warnings are yellow, the lowest on Environment Canada’s three-colour scale.
The broader Kingston area has been pelted again and again by snow in the back half of January. This storm could bring enough to Trenton to top 100 centimetres since Jan. 15.
In both Kingston and in Ottawa, where only flurries are forecast Tuesday, the temperature remains colder than normal: daytime highs around –10 C and overnight lows around –20 C, plus wind chill.
That’s expected to continue for the rest of the week.