Portion of Highway 23 closed following multi-vehicle crash

The incident is believed to have taken place sometime overnight before 6:30 a.m. Wednesday.

"It’s probably the heaviest snow I’ve been in, it just came down so fast."

Road snow warnings cover southern routes as winds could gust to 120km/h.

After flooding, evacuations, slips and road closures caused havoc across the country, another blast of wild weather is bringing snow, hail, thunderstorms and potentially damaging winds.