WATCH: People across Atlantic Canada must be counting down to spring, as they dig out from yet another punishing blizzard. Ross Lord has the story.
HALIFAX – A late winter storm that battered the Maritimes has moved into Newfoundland and Labrador, bringing heavy snowfall pushed by gusting winds.
In Halifax, the storm left 21 centimetres of snow in its wake. The hardest hit region in Nova Scotia was Cape Breton. Environment Canada recorded 59 centimetres of snow in Sydney.
Halifax Transit buses weren’t cancelled Monday morning, but some buses were on snow routes and many more routes faced delays because of narrower streets and slippery road conditions.
Environment Canada meteorologist Ian Khan said as much as 40 centimetres of snow could fall by the end of Monday in eastern Newfoundland, while the rest of the island could get 20 centimetres or more.
Khan said a weather system that paralysed a wide area of the Maritimes on Sunday was expected to move out of parts of northern Nova Scotia, southeastern New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island through the day Monday.
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Travel continues to be problematic with several flight delays and ferry cancellations reported, while the Confederation Bridge to P.E.I remains closed to traffic.
Khan said 44 centimetres of snow fell in Moncton, N.B., while parts of P.E.I. saw between 40 and 50 centimetres.
– With files from Marieke Walsh.
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