Winter storm #16 causes cancellations throughout the province
Posted Feb 19, 2014 05:39:52 AM.
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An unwelcome surprise to start your Wednesday, that 2 to 4 centimetres of snow we were expecting this morning has turned into 10 to 15 centimetres, and a lot of that has already fallen.
Road crews are now scrambling to clean things up, but indications are it’s going to be a tricky drive into work at best.
Meteorologist Richard Zurawski told News 95.7 it’s just a matter of degrees.
“This low pressure tracked further to the south, we wound up in the cold sector with the exception of the south shore of Nova Scotia which got a little more rain than snow,” explained Zurawski.
He said we’re going to get 10 to 20 millimetres of rain on top of this snow, turning the city into a slushy, messy mix.
Zurawski warned there’s another 10 to 15 centimetres of snow on the way in a couple days.
School closures:
- Halifax Regional School Board:School buses will NOT be operating throughout the entire region. Also, four families of schools are closed : Duncan MacMillan, Eastern Shore District, Musquodoboit Rural and Sir John A. Macdonald. In addition, Brookside Jr. High, Prospect Road Elementary and Atlantic Memorial – Terence Bay Elementary are closed.
All remaining schools are open. - Tri-County Regional School Board : Schools in Yarmouth and Digby Counties will be closed today
- Annapolis Valley Regional School Board : All schools closed, regional offices and work sites open
- Chignecto-Central Regional School Board : All schools closed today
- South Shore Regional School Board : No school in Lunenburg County today. Queens County schools are open with back road closure plans in effect.
- Strait Regional School Board : All classes cancelled, support staff expected at work at the regular time
- All CSAP schools are closed in Halifax as well as the campuses in Greenwood, Truro & Cookville
- Halifax Christian Academy is closed today
- NSCC Cumberland Campus closed today
- NSCC Strait Area and Cumberland campuses closed for the day
- NSCC Truro Campus closed for the day
Other:
- Halifax Oval closed this morning
- Some HRM Recreation programs/services may be delayed this morning, contact your rec centre for more info
