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Cleanup begins across the Avalon as winter weather system starts move out of Newfoundland
CBC
Winter storm warnings ended across Newfoundland Sunday morning after a mess of weather dumped over 50 centimetres of snow across much of the St. John's metro region.
Snow is expected to taper off Sunday morning after being on and off since Friday. A weather station in St. John's east reported 52 centimetres on the ground as of 6:30 a.m., while the weather station at St. John's International Airport reported 48 centimetres of snow.
The snow output more than doubled the total amount of snowfall seen all winter in Newfoundland and Labrador, which had only reported 40 centimetres of snow this season.
Winds are expected to remain a factor into Sunday with predicted northwesterly gusts of between 40 and 70 km/h. The winds could bring blowing snow over exposed areas.
"Those will stick around for a decent part of the day, but as we get into the afternoon hours they should start to diminish," Environment Canada meteorologist Brenden Sawchuk told CBC Radio Sunday.
Several power outages are being reported across the island Sunday morning due to severe weather conditions. About 850 Newfoundland Power customers are affected as of 9 a.m. NT, with over 11,000 people losing power around 1 a.m.
Transportation delays are continuing to be seen with areas across the region reporting slick road conditions. Many of the flights departing St. John's have been cancelled Sunday morning, while flights scheduled to leave in the afternoon are either currently on time or delayed.
With conditions set to improve, most people are putting away their storm chips to tackle shovelling Sunday.
Many shovellers, like Gabriella Ijaware, chose to head out multiple times over the course of Saturday to stay on top of things.
Ijaware says the warmer weather and lack of snow has been nice, but knew it was only a matter of time before the shovel needed to be pulled out.
"It's been a pretty good winter, so I was kind of expecting it to some level," she said.
Sawchuk said the snow that fell over the course of Saturday had high levels of water content as temperatures stayed at or near freezing, which could make for a challenging cleanup for some shovellers.
"Hopefully [people] took a bit of a dent into it yesterday before that second band came in," he said. "If you didn't it's going to be pretty heavy. It was a very heavy snow with it hovering around freezing."
St. John's Mayor Danny Breen says that's on the mind of the city as they continue their cleanup efforts.
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