January 24, 2022

January 24th is the 24th day of the year. There are 341 days remaining until the end of the year.

Environment Canada has issued a winter weather travel advisory for Chatham-Kent and most of southwestern Ontario.

Chatham-Kent, Sarnia-Lambton, Windsor-Essex, London-Middlesex, Oxford, and Elgin counties could see 5-10 centimetres of snow today.

Motorists should expect hazardous winter driving conditions and adjust travel plans accordingly. Take extra care when walking or driving in affected areas. Surfaces such as highways, roads, walkways and parking lots may become difficult to navigate due to accumulating snow.

On Sunday Ontario reported 3,797 people are now in hospital due to COVID-19. This is also the lowest number of hospitalizations in a week.

There were 57 new COVID-19 deaths across the province.

The last update from Chatham-Kent Public Health had 16 COVID patients in hospital. A weekend update will come between 10-11 this morning.

Beginning today the Ontario Government has a website available for parents to be able to see school closures.

It will show the total number of school closures in Ontario and a searchable table on school data for “absenteeism” as the government calls it.

Here’s the link to the site.

After a crazy wild weekend, the NFL’s AFC and NFC Championship matchups are set. All four games went down to the wire before a winner was decided.

The Cincinnati Bengals, San Francisco 49ers and L.A. Rams all won thanks to field goals as time expired. The Kansas City Chiefs needed overtime to beat the Bills.

Next week, the Bengals travel to Kansas City to take on the Chiefs for the AFC title, and the 49ers are in L.A. to play the Rams for the NFC championship.

The Super Bowl is February 13th in Los Angeles.

A new species of tarantula has been discovered.

Thai wildlife enthusiast JoCho Sippawat, who has 2.5 million YouTube subscribers, first came across the tarantula while on a trip into a forest in Thailand.

Distinct from all other known tarantulas, it has been declared a new genus and species — Taksinus bambus. Tarantulas in Southeast Asia usually live on the ground or in trees. Tree-dwelling tarantulas usually spend time on different types of trees, and this is the first tarantula to live exclusively in the hollowed stems of bamboo plants.

🗨️”These #animals are truly remarkable; they are the first known #tarantulas ever with a #bamboo-based ecology”
says Narin Chomphuphuang, author at @ZooKeys_Journal, quoted by @CNNi.
This is also the first tree-dwelling tarantula in Thailand🇹🇭@KatieHunt20 https://t.co/rMYh8FSf5o

— Pensoft (@Pensoft) January 20, 2022

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This post was written by Chris McLeod