Nor'easter to bring a snowy start to Monday in Nova Scotia
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Get those snow shovels ready.
An incoming nor’easter will bring significant snow to the province beginning Sunday night and continuing into Monday.
Expect delays, cancellations and travel impacts for Monday morning, with the clean up continuing throughout Monday afternoon. Given the snow will be wet and dense, it will be heavier to clear and it will also increase the possibility of some power outages.
Yellow alert level snowfall warnings have been issued for most of Nova Scotia.
Snowfall totals are expected to range from 15 to 25 cm for most of Nova Scotia as well as PEI, with amounts tapering off into southern New Brunswick. Higher terrain areas of northern Nova Scotia may see totals closer to 30 cm.
There’s a possibility of a mix with ice pellets from Halifax county to Pictou county and across eastern Nova Scotia. For the Eastern Shore and into southern Cape Breton, the snow will mix with ice pellets, freezing rain and rain which should keep totals a bit lower there, in the 10 to 15 cm range.
The track of this system has been tough to nail down over the past few days and some uncertainty continues, so stay tuned here for any updates to the forecast totals on Sunday afternoon as the storm approaches.
The system will roll in through late Sunday afternoon and evening and will likely begin as a mix of showers and flurries, before changing over to snow.
The snow will become heavy at times overnight and into the early hours of Monday morning. This is also when we’ll start to see the ice pellets, freezing rain and rain mixing in along the Atlantic coastline and southern Cape Breton. Northeast winds 20 gusting 40-50 km/h will also kick in overnight.
The heaviest snow and messy mix will start to taper off to flurries and drizzle with the risk of some freezing drizzle from west to east throughout the early to mid-morning Monday as winds shift to northwest 20 gusting 40 km/h.
The flurries will end from west to east throughout the late morning and early afternoon.
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