08 March 2008

The Winter Weather Won't Quit in NB

It has not been good weather in NB for the last little while. We have gotten used to March being at least a transition month if not a spring month in recent years. This year it has been a storm every 4/5 days. Recently it has been wet snow or freezing rain. Take today's forecast for example:

This weather has caused nothing but trouble for the traffic web cameras. The new MRDC Coytown camera continues to be huge disappointment from it's hopeful beginnings. The last storm blew from the north-east and a large number of cameras were obscured by ice / snow. They mostly all recovered but with residues on the camera lenses but some cameras went down and only recently came back. One of my favorite cameras is the one in Welsford and it came back in time to catch the train warning signs today but not the train.

Mont Farlagne is now getting the worst of the storm in snow with the web camera in the middle of the afternoon showing clear roads and low snow banks

Just now however the view is dramatically changing.

It would appear that the weather is bringing snow above the Fredericton - Miramichi line and freezing rain hail below it. Tomorrow promises to look dramatically different. Winter in NB you just gotta love it.









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