Saturday Night Update
Cloudy with sunny breaks today with temperatures in the 7*C-8*C range. Winds were light and the Bedford Basin was pretty still.
Today's high 9.6*C overnight
Today's low 1.2*C current temperature
Looking Ahead
Sunday Clear with temperatures around freezing.
Monday Snow beginning late afternoon or evening 10 cm, windy.
Tuesday Snow overnight ending in the morning 15 cm.
Wednesday Flurries then clearing, cool.
Thursday Clear
Friday Cloudy and milder ahead of a rain maker for the weekend.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Saturday Morning Update
Heavy rain and T&L last evening and overnight. Was awoken by thunder shortly aftermidnight.
Here is a statement issued by EC.
AWCN11 CWHX 120938
Special weather summary message for Nova Scotia issued by Environment
Canada at 5:38 AM AST Saturday 12 January 2008.
..It was a wet and stormy night..
An intensifying area of low pressure crossed through New Brunswick
last night and an associated front crossed Nova Scotia through the
night. Most of the mainland of Nova Scotia saw rain from the system
although central and northern areas of the province had a brief bout
of freezing rain at the start early Friday evening. Cape Breton had
A much longer period of freezing rain. In addition an organized line
of thunderstorms crossed much of the mainland overnight with
Digby Yarmouth Shelburne Queens Lunenburg and Halifax counties
Taking the brunt of the thunder and lightning activity and the
associated heavy rains.
The front also brought a mild air mass over southern Nova Scotia
With several locations exceeding 10 degrees overnight. Yarmouth was
the warmest spot in the country on Friday at 11.1 degrees and that
was recorded just before midnight last night.
Wind gusts across the much of the province were in the 50 to 70 km/h
range except in the Cape Breton Highlands where Les Suetes wind
Gusts topped 100 km/h.
Here is a list of some rainfall totals across the province as of
5 AM this morning. These include amounts from automated weather
stations. Also included are peak wind gust information for select
locations across the province.
Rainfall peak wind
Location amount (mm) gust (km/h)
-------- ----------- -----------
Yarmouth 28.2 61
Baccaro Point 67
Brier Island 36.9 75
Western Head 36.1 65
Kejimkujik nat'l'park 25.3
Greenwood 24.9 33
Kentville 24.4
Shearwater auto station 33.6
Bedford 28.1
Mcnabs island 71
Halifax stanfield airport 25.7 52
Malay Falls 31.9
Upper stewiacke 21.6
Debert 28.1 (includes 1 mm freezing rain)
Nappan 16.7 49
Parrsboro 38.8 58
Caribou Point 16.8 (includes 2.6 mm freezing rain)
Caribou Point 62
Tracadie 12.4 54
Beaver Island 74
Hart Island 56
Sydney airport 15.9 (including 2 mm freezing rain)
Ingonish beach 16.7 (including 1 mm freezing rain)
Cheticamp 5.3
Grand Etang 108
END/ASPC
Heavy rain and T&L last evening and overnight. Was awoken by thunder shortly aftermidnight.
Here is a statement issued by EC.
AWCN11 CWHX 120938
Special weather summary message for Nova Scotia issued by Environment
Canada at 5:38 AM AST Saturday 12 January 2008.
..It was a wet and stormy night..
An intensifying area of low pressure crossed through New Brunswick
last night and an associated front crossed Nova Scotia through the
night. Most of the mainland of Nova Scotia saw rain from the system
although central and northern areas of the province had a brief bout
of freezing rain at the start early Friday evening. Cape Breton had
A much longer period of freezing rain. In addition an organized line
of thunderstorms crossed much of the mainland overnight with
Digby Yarmouth Shelburne Queens Lunenburg and Halifax counties
Taking the brunt of the thunder and lightning activity and the
associated heavy rains.
The front also brought a mild air mass over southern Nova Scotia
With several locations exceeding 10 degrees overnight. Yarmouth was
the warmest spot in the country on Friday at 11.1 degrees and that
was recorded just before midnight last night.
Wind gusts across the much of the province were in the 50 to 70 km/h
range except in the Cape Breton Highlands where Les Suetes wind
Gusts topped 100 km/h.
Here is a list of some rainfall totals across the province as of
5 AM this morning. These include amounts from automated weather
stations. Also included are peak wind gust information for select
locations across the province.
Rainfall peak wind
Location amount (mm) gust (km/h)
-------- ----------- -----------
Yarmouth 28.2 61
Baccaro Point 67
Brier Island 36.9 75
Western Head 36.1 65
Kejimkujik nat'l'park 25.3
Greenwood 24.9 33
Kentville 24.4
Shearwater auto station 33.6
Bedford 28.1
Mcnabs island 71
Halifax stanfield airport 25.7 52
Malay Falls 31.9
Upper stewiacke 21.6
Debert 28.1 (includes 1 mm freezing rain)
Nappan 16.7 49
Parrsboro 38.8 58
Caribou Point 16.8 (includes 2.6 mm freezing rain)
Caribou Point 62
Tracadie 12.4 54
Beaver Island 74
Hart Island 56
Sydney airport 15.9 (including 2 mm freezing rain)
Ingonish beach 16.7 (including 1 mm freezing rain)
Cheticamp 5.3
Grand Etang 108
END/ASPC
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