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Winter Weather Is Moving West: How The Polar Vortex Is Rewriting America’s Cold Map
In A Nutshell A major study of 42 years of data shows severe winter storms have shifted northwest, away from the traditional ...
Snow removal contracts and lack of proper planning leave Toronto at risk in future winter storms, says report
A consultants’ report highlights the shortcomings in the current set of winter maintenance contracts which are set to run ...
Toronto needs to do better on snow clearing, city manager says after review finds 'significant' gaps
Toronto must do better when it comes to clearing snow, a senior city official says, after a review by an independent ...
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Roads will likely be impassable for weeks this winter, ODOT manager says
Several vital highways will likely be impassable for weeks or even months during the winter. That’s according to one Oregon ...
Report recommends Toronto create a year-round winter operations unit
It is just one of the recommendations being made to improve the City's winter maintenance operations during major storm events.
Researchers using AI for weather forecasting
Weather forecasting is not easy. The truth is that predicting future weather conditions over broad, or even narrow, swaths of ...
Botched reports by city staff made snow removal ‘failure’ worse during February’s winter storms, audit finds
Toronto’s auditor general found ‘field audits’ used to hold snow removal contractors accountable contained errors and omissions more than half the time.
Toronto still struggling to track snow plows with GPS, auditor finds
The city's plan to use GPS and field checks to track the work of snow-clearing contractors is still ineffective, Toronto's ...