WATCH ABOVE: Atlantic Canada has been battered by a series of storms and another has hit this weekend. As Mayya Assouad reports, the onslaught of heavy rain and snow could prove too much for streets and homes.
HALIFAX – The calendar says spring is officially here, but many in Atlantic Canada may still be wondering if their winter will ever end.
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Eastern Quebec and the Atlantic provinces are bracing for another in what has been a seemingly endless series of winter storms.
Environment Canada has issued storm warnings for New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula as well as Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula and Gulf of St. Lawrence region.
Forecasters say a low pressure system that swept up the American east coast will dump 15 to 30-centimetres of snow over those areas by tonight.
They say the snow will be whipped by high winds that will cut visibility to near zero in places.
The same storm is expected to bring winds of up to 100-kilometres to parts of coastal Newfoundland.
Environment Canada has also issued snowfall warnings for northern Nova Scotia, eastern New Brunswick and western Prince Edward Island, with 15 to 20-centimetres expected.
And a rainfall warning is in effect for the Halifax area, where forecasters say up to 40-millimetres of rain could cause flooding in low-lying areas.
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