IW Storm Watch! Everything You Need To Know Before, During & After!

Issued: February, 1st. 2020 @ 4:30 PM

Updated: February, 2nd. 2020 @ 12:30 AM

Forecaster: James Follette

Good Afternoon! Welcome to IW Storm Watch of the Nor’easter on par to hit the province in a matter of hours which will bring heavy snow late this evening and overnight and into the early morning on the south coast before very quickly moving north spreading further across the province.

For updates on the storm from Alerts to latest updates, Traffic alerts, Power Outages and closures will all be posted right here! and updated frequently before, during and after the storm!

We’ll start Storm watch with the latest alerts that are issued across the province!

We have a new alert just issued recently, A special weather statement regarding higher than normal water levels expected. Higher than normal Waters levels and large waves are expected along the mainland Atlantic Coast near high tide Tuesday night.

This is to include:

East Of Porters Lake

• Guysborough County

• Halifax County

• Halifax Metro And Halifax County West

• Lunenburg County

• Queens County

• Shelburne County

• Yarmouth County

Coastal flooding, beach erosion, and dune erosion are very possible in the mentioned areas.

We have a continued Flood warning ( Rainfall warning) issued for the following areas:

Nova Scotia except Inverness County - Mabou and North.

Snow will change to rain, at times heavy, Tuesday morning in the Southwest and Tuesday afternoon in the northern mainland and Cape Breton. The rain will taper to showers Wednesday morning.

25 to 80 mm, with the highest amounts along the Atlantic Coast, are expected.

The combination of the heavy snowfall amounts, Heavy rainfall, mild temperatures along with potential coastal flooding from large waves, high tide, and heavy rainfall. Flash flooding, Coastal flooding, and urban and street flooding is likely.

We also have snowfall warnings that are issued! For Victoria County, 15 to 30cm can be expected, with possible higher amounts over higher terrain. The heavy snowfall is expected to cause very dangerous travel and with winds expected to gust over 100 km/h, white outs and low visibility is expected to cause near blizzard like conditions at times.

This will be for Tuesday Afternoon and persisting through Tuesday night.

We also have high wind warnings in effect!

Easterly 80 km/h, except 100 km/h along with parts of the Coast, potentially higher gusts.

This is in effect for the Atlantic Coast of mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton.

Tuesday morning and afternoon for Western Nova Scotia, Tuesday afternoon through to Wednesday morning over eastern Nova Scotia.

These winds are capable of causing power outages, and structural damage to windows, roof shingles, sidings and can toss small loose objects that can potentially cause injury or death. The winds expected can also bring down large tree branches and small trees, potentially large trees due to a very saturated ground prior to the coming storm, the near 80mm of rain, 20-30 cm of snow, and winds of 100+ can enhance a greater threat of saturation at the point of uprooting large trees.

We also have Les Suetes wind warning in effect for Inverness county!

Dangerous wind gusts causing widespread damage are expected

Maximum Les suetes gusts: 140 km/h Tuesday afternoon increasing to 170 km/h Tuesday night.

Tuesday afternoon and Tuesday night, diminishing early Wednesday morning.

Be prepared to adjust your driving with changing road conditions due to high winds. Very strong wind gusts can damage buildings, down trees, and blow large vehicles off the road.

We have a change to the snowfall map! Looking like slightly lower amounts for the south, but still looking at up to 20cmfor the big chunk of the province, and still a foot or more in Western CB.