The storm leaves about 300,000 without energy in the region of large lakes
About 300,000 electricity customers in Michigan, Wisconsin and Ontario, the most populous province of Canada, were without energy on Sunday while a spring storm brought rain and snowfall freezing in the region of large lakes.
The ice from the branches of the tree covered by storm, taking some electrical lines on Saturday and created dangerous driving conditions. A national office of weather services in Michigan published Photos on social media of trees weighed down by glaciers.
More than one million people in some parts of Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Wisconsin were below A warning warning Sunday early. It was expected that up to a thumb of ice accumulated in some places,
The officials urged the residents in some parts of the southern Michigan not to travel. They also warned the drivers of being cautious on the Mackinac bridge, which connects the Michigan superior peninsula to the southern part of the state, due to the frozen conditions and the possibility of falling icing.
In Eastern Canada, the Quebec authorities warned icy rain and on Sunday up to four tenths of the thumb of ice, second Environment Canada.
This ice storm is producing icing than usual, said Harold Dippman, a meteorologist at the Gaylord meteorological service office, Mich. One typical in the region produces a tenth to a quarter -inch ice, but so far there have been reports of half inch with three quarters of accumulation.
The storm lasts even longer than usual. A typical lasts from six to 12 hours, said Mr. Dippman, but this storm started on Saturday evening and could last until Sunday evening.
A previous round of winter conditions hit the region from Friday to Saturday morning.
Over 109,000 customers in Michigan and about 10,000 in the nearby Wisconsin were without energy on Sunday, according to the monitoring site Powerutage.us.
In Ontario, about 179,000 customers were without energy early early, According to Hydro One, The main energy transmission company of the Ontario. The interruptions, concentrated in central and eastern, were largely caused by the ice that weighs down the branches of the trees, said the company on its website.
Hydro One said that the energy had already been restored to over 116,000 customers.
