Nor'Easter Pounds Nova Scotia, PEI and New Foundland

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

It is a beautiful sunny calm day here in my area. The temp. is around freezing already, but things are not as tranquil in my neighboring provinces:


http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/s ... hub=Canada


Western Atlantic Surface Analysis:


http://www.opc.ncep.noaa.gov/shtml/A_sfcbw.gif

[conestogo_flood]

Yes, just saw on CBC Newsworld that many flights are cancelled out of Halifax Int'l. It was total whiteouts, and cars in ditches. Pretty intense storm, I see there is a storm surge warning for coastal Nova Scotia, anyone know if any coastal flooding as occured? Blizzard warnings have been dropped for the southern part of Nova Scotia.

As of 215pm.

Nova Scotia
Blowing snow warning for Annapolis County
Blizzard warning for Antigonish County
Blizzard warning for Colchester County - Truro and South
Blizzard warning for Colchester County North
Blowing snow warning for Cumberland County - Minas Shore
Blowing snow warning for Cumberland County North and Cobequid Pass
Storm surge warning for Digby County
Storm surge warning for Guysborough County
Blizzard warning for Guysborough County
Storm surge warning for Halifax County - East of Porters Lake
Blizzard warning for Halifax County - East of Porters Lake
Storm surge warning for Halifax Metro and Halifax County West
Blizzard warning for Hants County
Blizzard warning for Inverness County - Mabou and North
Blizzard warning for Inverness County - South of Mabou
Blowing snow warning for Kings County
Storm surge warning for Lunenburg County
Blizzard warning for Pictou County
Storm surge warning for Queens County
Storm surge warning for Richmond County
Blizzard warning for Richmond County
Storm surge warning for Shelburne County
Storm surge warning for Sydney Metro and Cape Breton County
Blizzard warning for Sydney Metro and Cape Breton County
Storm surge warning for Victoria County
Blizzard warning for Victoria County
Storm surge warning for Yarmouth County

Prince Edward Island
Blizzard warning for Kings County
Blowing snow warning for Queens County

Newfoundland and Labrador
Blowing snow warning for BAY OF EXPLOITS
Blowing snow warning for BONAVISTA NORTH
Blizzard warning for BONAVISTA PENINSULA
Blowing snow warning for BUCHANS AND THE INTERIOR
Blizzard warning for CLARENVILLE AND VICINITY
Blowing snow warning for GANDER AND VICINITY
Blowing snow warning for GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR AND VICINITY
Blizzard warning for TERRA NOVA

[conestogo_flood]

Here is a 45 second clip I recorded off CBC News Today about the blizzard.

It is 777kb.

http://www.scostorms.com/images/canadablizzard.mp3

[Stephanie]

Wow! She really cranked up, didn't she?

The Mid Atlantic and New England areas of the US dodged a bullet on this one.

[Miss Mary]

When I hear PEI, I think of Anne of Green Gables.

Sorry, back to wx now.....Steph, yes we did dodge the bullet on this storm!

Mary

[tropicana]

Halifax NS
Wed Feb 1st 2006

It wasn’t the blizzard of 2004, but a mid-winter storm that socked Nova Scotia on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning brought most of the province to a standstill.

Wind-whipped snow caused much disruption Wednesday. School boards closed schools and their own offices, transportation — including commercial flights, ferries and public transit buses — was suspended, government edifices were shut down, many businesses were closed for at least part of the day and highway driving was hazardous at best.

Cape Breton got hit hard, as high winds created drifting snow and severely reduced visibility, and police asked people to stay off the roads.

At about 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, Cape Breton Regional Police were dealing with a five-car pileup on the highway between Glace Bay and Port Morien.

The storm prevented a Marine Atlantic ferry with 139 passengers on board from docking in North Sydney, a television report said. The ship remained in the outer reaches of Sydney Harbour until the storm let up.

Environment Canada staff in Dartmouth said that by 6 p.m. Wednesday the storm had dumped 37 centimetres of snow on Sydney, 31 centimetres on Halifax Regional Municipality and 14 on Greenwood and Yarmouth. Wind gusts reached 81 kilometres an hour in Sydney and 76 in metro Halifax.
The storm turned Halifax International Airport into a no-fly zone Tuesday night and grounded flights much of Wednesday.

Airlines cancelled flights in advance of the storm so few passengers were left stranded, an airport official said. .

The snowstorm hit Nova Scotia almost two years after a record snowfall paralyzed the province. Dubbed White Juan, a reference to hurricane Juan that came ashore just months earlier, that 2004 blizzard forced officials to declare a provincewide state of emergency.

On Wednesday, RCMP were asking people to stay off the 100-series highways throughout the day unless necessary, as high winds that gusted to 91 km/h in some areas caused whiteouts and drifts. Highway 102 near Fall River was closed for a time when four tractor-trailers couldn’t make it up the slippery grade. The highway was reopened in the afternoon.

Highway 101 between Ben Jackson Road and Avonport was shut down for a couple hours at about lunchtime after a truck left the road.
There had been no reports of major crashes by 3 p.m.

Metro Transit buses were pulled off the road in Halifax until mid-afternoon, and Kings Transit in the Annapolis Valley didn’t operate at all Wednesday.
The blizzard prompted surge warnings along parts of the province and there were reports of sporadic flooding. Nova Scotia Power reported no major power failures. A company website said there were "scattered outages affecting some coastal communities."

While many people spent Wednesday shovelling and reshovelling the drifting snow, some of it will likely disappear this weekend when Environment Canada forecasts call for rain and unseasonably mild temperatures of 7C 45F or higher both Saturday and Sunday.
-justin-