Winter Storm Blasts Atlantic Canada
Heavy snow, soaking rain and ice have hit Atlantic Canada along with a major windswept storm.
The storm cut power to thousands of residents and disrupted ferry service, the Canadian CBC News said on Sunday.
Freezing rain was the apparent cause of power cuts in Prince Edward Island. High winds or icing likely triggered reported outages in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
In the capital, Charlottetown, the storm unloaded 42 cm (17 inches) of snow, 32 cm of which fell within six hours early Sunday morning, according to weather data available to AccuWeather.com.
In Nova Scotia, Highway 104, a main thoroughfare between Truro and Amherst, was temporarily shut by foul weather early Sunday, the CBC said. Snowfall in the area topped 30 cm (one foot) as winds gusted 65-80 kph (40-50 mph), weather data accessed by AccuWeather.com showed.
High winds raked Newfoundland early Sunday, with speeds ranging from 110 to 130 kph in Port aux Basques, St. Anthony and Daniel's Harbour.
Heavy rain doused St. John's, beating down the area's heavy blanket of snow.
But the storm piled on the snow in Labrador, where Goose saw its snow depth rise from 114 cm to 155 cm (more than 5 feet) as of Sunday.
The second of two centers in the twin-barreled storm will race northward from Newfoundland to near northern Labrador by Monday afternoon.
In so doing, this storm will spread more snow, some heavy, over Labrador and western Newfoundland, and a blast of biting cold air throughout Atlantic Canada.
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| Precip | 3.99" | Wadena, MN |
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