Cleanup Continues After Tuesday’s Storm

Walking and driving are still a bit tricky in places after Tuesday’s storm brought a mix of snow, ice pellets and freezing rain to the region.

Precipitation started as snow in the morning but quickly changed to ice pellets. Environment Canada reported about two centimetres of snow at the Saint John Airport.

We then saw several hours of freezing rain and drizzle throughout the afternoon and evening before it ended early Wednesday morning.

“Moncton picked up 13 centimetres of snow and ice pellets, and that was followed by about eight millimetres of freezing rain and freezing drizzle,” said Jean-Marc Couturier, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. “Toward Saint John, a little bit less there along the Fundy coast. As much as 11 millimetres of freezing rain and a little bit of rain.”

As of 6:10 a.m. Wednesday, Route 1 was reported to be wet with icy and slushy patches from St. Stephen to Saint John, and partly snow-covered with icy and slushy patches from Saint John to River Glade, according to New Brunswick 511.

Route 7 is wet with icy and slushy patches from Saint John to Finnegan Hill, and snow-covered with icy and slushy patches from Finnegan Hill to Fredericton.

Environment Canada is calling for a couple of days of sunshine before the next system moves in Friday night into Saturday.

Couturier said temperatures will remain cool for the next couple of days and they are monitoring another system for the end of the week, but at this point, it looks like Nova Scotia may get the worst of it.

Environment Canada’s latest forecast calls for snow Friday night into Saturday.

With files from Tara Clow.