Snow piles about to get higher: storm system headed this way
Posted Feb 7, 2011 05:26:58 AM.
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A third storm system in a week’s time will descend on the Maritimes Tuesday bringing more snow and strong winds.
How much snow this latest storm will dump is still being debated.
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement predicting metro will get between 10 and 15 centimeters, starting Tuesday morning.
Meteorologist Richard Zurawski says he agrees with the national organization, but says that prediction could change depending on where the storm tracks.
“If the storm starts to move off to the north than all bets are off and we’re looking at 20 or 30 cm of snow, or maybe even more depending on the drifting snow,” he said.
Zurawski describes the storm as a deep low pressure system, which will develop off the Carolinas this evening and intensify as it moves towards the Maritimes.
He expects it will bring strong winds, which will hamper tomorrow’s rush-hour traffic with blowing and drifting snow.
A winter storm Saturday night brought mostly rain to Metro, which washed away some of the snow accumulated in the week before.
A two-part deep-low-pressure system which devastated approximately 30 states and buried about five provinces under a deluge of snow swept over North America Wednesday and Thursday last week. Halifax was one of the hardest hit in Canada, receiving 60 cm of snow in some areas.
