Ontario weather: Snow squalls triggering whiteout conditions, crashes, OPP says [Video]

Snow squall warnings are in effect for parts of southern Ontario with up to 60 centimetres of snow expected in some areas, and provincial police say they’re already responding to multiple crashes and rollovers across the region.

“It is absolutely crazy,” OPP Sgt. Kerry Schmidt, who was near Barrie Thursday morning, told CP24. “You can barely see the tracks on the highways. Plows have been going through. We have tow trucks and police responding, there’s paramedics responding to calls everywhere we look at.”

The lake effect snow squalls are hitting the cities and towns surrounding Lake Simcoe and Georgian Bay the hardest.

Barrie, Collingwood, Midland, and Wasaga Beach look poised to get the worst of it, and the heavy snow blowing at gusts of up to 60 km/h in those areas is producing poor visibility and “treacherous” driving conditions, according to Schmidt.

“You can see, very often, a wall of snow as you’re …