Shovels ready? Some will need them by Thursday
We’re no strangers to snow in November, and some of us will need to have our shovels handy as a low-pressure system near Cape Cod brings a mix of snow, rain and gusty winds to Atlantic Canada.
Not much has changed since yesterday – precipitation develops from west to east across the Maritime provinces through this afternoon and evening, then overnight tonight into Thursday for Newfoundland and southeast Labrador.
This will be mostly a snow event for the Great Northern Peninsula in Newfoundland and in northern New Brunswick. Central Newfoundland, the Cape Breton Highlands and central New Brunswick will begin as snow, changing to rain. This will otherwise be largely a rain event for Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, southern New Brunswick and eastern Newfoundland, but some wet snow could fall initially.
Snowfall amounts of 10 to 15 cm remain forecast for northwestern Newfoundland, along with central to northern regions of New Brunswick, with pockets of 15 to 25 cm. Two to 10 cm is forecast south of that line in New Brunswick, the western tip of P.E.I., the Cape Breton Highlands and the rest of Newfoundland – excluding the Burin and Avalon peninsulas.
Otherwise, this is a 10 to 30-plus mm rain event for the rest of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, the Fundy Coast, along with the Burin and Avalon.
The next few days will also be quite windy, with gusts of 40 to 60 km/h across the region Wednesday night through Thursday, gusting to 70 km/h at times. It will remain blustery through Friday, with gusts of 70 to 90 km/h developing in the Cape Breton Highlands and eastern Newfoundland.
More unsettled weather is possible this weekend into next week, and I’ll dive deeper into that later this week.