Blackouts, freezing rain, power outages and a number of big time winter blasts. They’re listed by Environment Canada as top weather stories in Atlantic Canada in 2014.
The weather agency ranked a powerful January storm as its top newsmaker. It brought freezing rain, snow and high wind to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI. It left some residents of New Brunswick without power for two weeks.
Meantime, a big storm on Valentine’s Day also made the list which dropped as much as 35 cm of snow in New Brunswick and 50 mm of rain in Nova Scotia.
The top weather related story in Canada was the long, cold winter.
Environment Canada says it was the coldest winter in 18 years and the third coldest in 35 years.
