Alerts: Halifax, NS
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* Snowfall Warning
I am so sick and tired of seeing snow. Since January there pretty much were back-to back Nor'Easters and now there's a storm that was recently in the US Mid-West & Ontario.
Snowfall warning for Halifax Metro and Halifax County West
Snowfall Warning
Issued at 10:11 PM AST Tuesday 1 February 2011
Summary
Snowfall amounts tonight up to 15 cm. Heavier snow starting Wednesday giving additional amounts of 20 to 45 centimetres until Thursday morning.
Details
A series of low pressure systems will affect the Maritimes in the following few days. The first system south of Nova Scotia will continue eastward this evening to lie southeast of Newfoundland. It will produce as much as 15 cm of snow for southern mainland Nova Scotia this evening before ending overnight. The second low pressure system developing over the continental us will move South of the Great Lakes Wednesday morning and track eastward reaching Cape Cod by Wednesday evening then continue onwards to lie south of Newfoundland on Thursday morning. Snow at times heavy will move into western sections of mainland Nova Scotia Wednesday morning and spread eastward throughout the day. Additional amounts of 20 to 45 cm are expected by Thursday morning. The snow may become mixed with or change to freezing rain Wednesday evening over the south shore of the province. Strong northeasterlies are expected ahead of the low giving local blowing snow.
And now tomorrow... rather today is Groundhog Day, I seriously doubt that "it" will predicting an early spring. I have never really bought into the "If the Groundhog sees his shadow..." line/belief/etc.. How could it when there's going to be too much snow for the poor creature to see anything other than mounds of snow to predict an early spring