Environment Canada warns of hypothermia, frostbite and the risk to pets
CBC News · Posted: Jan 30, 2019 9:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 30
The bitter cold is the result of a split in the polar vortex that has allowed temperatures to plunge much farther south in North America than normal.
Windsor, Ont., is having its coldest Jan. 30 on record, with a low of –21.7 C Wednesday at 7 a.m. ET. The previous record was –20.6 C, set in 1951.
And those are two of the warmer spots under warning.
Wind-chill values of –50 and colder
At 7 a.m. CT, it was –40 C in Winnipeg and felt like –50 with the wind chill. Dozens of schools in the province were closed due to the extreme cold, and CAA Manitoba sent out a service alert explaining it was temporarily stopping house calls and focusing on people who may be in an unsafe situation, such as at the side of a road.