New Brunswick to see storm Saturday
Region to get blanketed with winter weather, warns Environment & Climate Change Canada
Just a couple of days after the first winter storm of the year in the province, the federal weather service has issued an alert about the second, set to hit New Brunswick on Saturday.
Environment and Climate Change Canada’s weather service updated a special weather statement just before 7 a.m. Friday, advising of a storm set to envelop all of New Brunswick on the weekend.
“Snow will develop Saturday morning over western regions, reaching eastern New Brunswick by early afternoon,” the special weather statement said.
“The snow will transition through ice pellets then to rain for most of the province later in the day.”
Snow will begin Saturday morning in the Fredericton area, the forecast said, and the snow and ice pellets are expected to amount to five to 10 centimetres in the capital region.
The advisory noted snow could total up to 15 cm in northern areas of the province.
Fredericton should see southeasterly winds at 20 kilometres per hour, gusting to 40 km/hour in the morning, and then increasing to 40 in the afternoon and gusting to 70 km/hour.
The daytime high in the capital will be -1 C, but the wind chill Saturday morning is expected to be -14 C.
Environment and Climate Change Canada warns that coastal areas will experience a wilder ride in the Saturday storm.
“The emergence of this disturbance will coincide with a high astronomical tide to produce elevated water levels,” the special weather statement said.
“Large waves and pounding surf will impact some east-southeast-facing coastlines (mainly in the vicinity of the Bay of Chaleur) near high tide late in the day Saturday. These large waves can cause coastal erosion in vulnerable areas, and flood some of the coastal roadways.”
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