There’s still lots of digging out to do.
The biggest snowstorm so far this season came in on Monday afternoon with a bang.
It rolled in quickly in the afternoon, and conditions diminished rapidly in a very short amount of time, “I was like a wall of snow, and with the added wind, it made it seem probably that much more almost blizzard-like,” Environment Canada Meteorologist Jill Maepea said.
Heavy snow and high winds forced the closure of highways and left some motorists stranded.
As for how much snow fell, Maepea told us almost all of their observers reported it was really hard to measure because of the wind.
In Moncton and Saint. John, I can give the estimates. They both had around 25 centimetres. Those were the largest amounts in the province. I’m sure there are localized amounts, but these are the numbers we have right now. If I go up to Miramichi, they had around 20 centimetres, and in St. Stephen, they had around 15 centimetres. Anywhere away from that, the amounts diminished quite a bit. There were only about five in the Fredericton area,” Maepea explained.
Wind gusts of around 91 km/h were registered at the Greater Moncton Romeo Leblanc International Airport, and gusts of around 85 km/h at the Saint John Airport.
Cleanup after this Nor’easter is expected to take several days. Maepea added that it also hit parts of the New England states as well. New York and Boston saw significant impacts from the same system.
Maepea explained there aren’t any other big systems on the radar, but she also emphasized that it’s only the end of February, “We can still see snowstorms in March. I don’t have anything in my short-term forecast, but I don’t want to rule out the fact that there remains part of the season left to have more storms.”
There is another system expected on Wednesday night, but it’s only expected to bring around five centimetres of snow to the southern part of the province.
