The ongoing storm brought areas in cottage country nearly a metre of snow blowing in off the Great Lakes on Saturday, cutting power to about 30,000 homes and closing highways.

Snow blowing off lakes Superior and Huron has closed a stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway, knocked out power and buried some communities under nearly a metre of snow.

A blast of winter weather delivered a “rude awakening” to parts of Ontario, an Environment Canada meteorologist said, as some communities dug out from nearly a metre of snow on Saturday with more to come.

Difficult driving conditions continue through this weekend across portions of Ontario as powerful snow squalls continue whipping off all five of the Great Lakes Powerful snow squalls have produced as much as 100 cm of snow across parts of Ontario so far ...

Ice, heavy snow, and frigid temperatures. The first signs of winter will be bold across much of Ontario this week