Weather update: Major winter storms blast Canada

Elsie, tell us more about what we can expect from this storm. This is one of two big systems set to hit Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada this week. It's arriving today. The second one pushes in for the weekend and it's bringing a messy mix of rain, snow, freezing rain and very gusty winds across Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada. So widespread warnings in addition to all of this active weather. Now, the snowfall totals are limited through southern and southwest Ontario, but it certainly picks up quite quickly as you head further north and east. Cities like Ottawa and Montreal could be looking at 15 to 30 centimetres of snow. For areas further south and west, it's mixing with rain and so that's limiting the snow totals, but it will still be messy in its own right just due to the sheer amount of precipitation. Very gusty winds across Ontario and Quebec through today as this system moves its way in, leaving a lasting impact through Wednesday as colder air floods in and everything flips over to flurries. Now, that moves into Atlantic Canada tonight and in its wake, we see another system arriving for Friday that will last into Saturday, tracking in the same route. Now, for Atlantic Canada, the system pushing in tonight is going to bring with it that messy mix of snow and rain. First snow for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, flipping by midday Wednesday over to heavy rainfall. Winds gusting up to 90 kilometres an hour in our maritimes, but for Newfoundland, the wreck house region, 130 to 150 kilometres an hour and that will last through Thursday. Now, all of that's happening in the east, but for the west, we've got a Pacific frontal system driving weather warnings there, heavy snowfall, winter storm warnings with up to 30 to 50 centimetres of snow in those mountain passes and extreme cold in terms of the wind chill it's been feeling through the morning, near minus 50 in Yellowknife.