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Maritimes likely to receive as much as 15 cm of snow on Thursday

Pedestrians make their way down Quinpool Road in Halifax during a mid-January winter storm. Alexander Quon/Global News

Be prepared for snow on Thursday with a low-pressure system likely bring as much as 15 cm of the white stuff to parts of the Maritimes.

Environment Canada is forecasting that the low pressure will approach the Maritimes from New England and track eastward to near or just south of Nova Scotia.

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Snow is set to develop across western portions of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia early on Thursday with the system arriving in Prince Edward Island a little later.

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Environment Canada says the system will then spread east across New Brunswick and Nova Scotia during the day.

The federal agency says snowfall is expected to accumulate across all three Maritime provinces before coming to an end by late afternoon or early evening.

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