Messy couple of days ahead
Cindy Day says she is tracking two systems that will impact P.E.I. on Thursday and Friday
This week could end with a bang when it comes to the weather.
Cindy Day, chief meteorologist with SaltWire Network, said two systems are developing which are both expected to impact P.E.I. on Thursday and Friday.
“There’s two systems, (but) it’s going to almost appear like one,’’ Day said Monday.
The first one is going to come into the Maritimes, arriving in the southwest corner of Nova Scotia.
It’s expected to reach the Island by mid-afternoon and then carry on to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Day calls the first system on Thursday a Texas low and says it will be a mostly snow event.
She was hesitant to give snowfall totals this far out but did say there is the potential for up to 30 centimetres in the Maritimes.
“Where exactly is it all going to go? Hard to know right now. The first system is more of a snow system that could bring 20 to 30 centimetres of snow through New Brunswick (and) parts of P.E.I.’’
Another system follows right behind it and will develop at the bottom of the trough meaning it’s going to pull in some warmer air. That will be mostly rain for Nova Scotia on Friday.
She expects temperatures to hover around the freezing mark on P.E.I. which could bring freezing rain.
“I think this one has the potential to be an ice storm.’
Day said she would have a better handle on numbers on Tuesday.
P.E.I. dodged a weather bullet on Sunday. The forecast early on Friday was that a nor’easter would deliver 5-10 centimetres for the western part of the province, 15 centimetres for central portions and the possibility of 20 centimetres or more from Montague to East Point.
However, other parts of Atlantic Canada got exactly what the forecast said they would.
When asked how P.E.I. avoided the mess, Day stressed that it wasn’t because the storm track changed.
“It was the energy on the backside of the system that didn’t extend as far away from the core of the low,’’ she said. “The energy just didn’t extend as far back.’’