The heaviest storm to hit the region since 2022 dropped 31 centimetres of snow — that's just over a foot — on Ottawa by early Thursday afternoon, as the city's snow clearing crews battled to keep the ...

In Ottawa, a winter parking ban was issued Saturday for most city streets from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The city said Saturday evening it would not need to be extended.

A file photo from a freezing rain storm in Ottawa in April 2023. Photo by Tony Caldwell / Postmedia A winter travel advisory has been announced for the Ottawa area starting on Thursday afternoon.

This winter has been mostly mild, without hitting –20 C yet, and dry. According to Environment Canada, Ottawa has so far seen 96.3 centimetres of winter precipitation such as snow and ice ...

But in another Tuesday update at 4:45 p.m. there was no mention of the storm being a possibility: “Highly impactful winter storm Wednesday evening into Thursday,” the update stated.

Environment Canada has issued a winter storm warning for Ottawa and the surrounding areas as a system moving through is expected to bring in high snowfall amounts.

We’ll see a sunrise at 7:39 a.m. with a sunset at 4:22 p.m., giving Ottawa just shy of 8 hours and 43 minutes of daylight on that inaugural day of astronomical winter.

We asked our readers to send in their best pictures on the theme of "winter walks". Here is a selection of the photographs we received from around the world. The next theme is "glass" and the ...