Subtropical Moisture Brings Heavy Rain And Flooding Threats To The Maritimes | #forecast

heavy rainfall will be moving into the maritimes on Friday and continuing into Saturday we have a pretty strong subtropical low that's moving up from the Carolinas impacting primarily the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia but depending on how far this low moves northward New Brunswick will be impacted pretty heavily as well let's take a closer look at the maritimes this moves in in the overnight hours early Saturday morning getting into the Bay of Fundy with heavy rainfall rates Yarmouth area Halifax you'll get into that heavier pocket of rain around that 10 11:00 in the morning frederickton as well now again this all depends how far low how far north the low pushes that will decide how much rain new brunsw gets the models aren't in complete agreement we'll see how this pans out over the next 12 hours now Halifax this is the 4 a.m. hour we're starting to see those rainfall rates increase they're 6:00 a.m. the airport getting into that almost 5 millimeters an hour and then we get into the heaviest pocket around that 11:00 a.m. noon hour where we're getting up to about that 10 millimet an hour so this is heavy rainfall this is risk of flooding especially down by the water Dartmouth hering Cove and then that will depart by around that 11:00 p.m. hour so Sunday is looking all right for the mar times but not before we get through quite substantial rainfall amount 75 plus millimeters in the Halifax area as we head out from Halifax we're going to see about that 50 to 75 and 30 to 50 across Cape Breton uh Kentville towards St John as well charlot Town 20 to 30 and wind gusts are going to be picking up quite substantially about 75 km an hour oh [Music] [Music]

Share your thoughts

Related Transcripts

September 6: The 1666 "Great Fire of London" thumbnail
September 6: The 1666 "Great Fire of London"

Category: News & Politics

[music] every so often i will come across a story from centuries ago heck i've even gone back close to 2,000 years for one story that i told already today we are going back to the year 1666 to look at the great fire of london hi i'm chris may writer producer and host of this day in weather history now... Read more

The Surprising Reason Your Allergies Are So Bad Right Now thumbnail
The Surprising Reason Your Allergies Are So Bad Right Now

Category: News & Politics

This year the rag weg counts have actually been lower than what is typical and you can thank the weather for that the weather has a huge impact on the amount of pollen that gets released the endless rain that eastern canada experienced this summer put a damper on ragweed pollen production that means... Read more

Funnel cloud spotted in St. Catharines, Ontario | #shorts #tornado #ontario thumbnail
Funnel cloud spotted in St. Catharines, Ontario | #shorts #tornado #ontario

Category: News & Politics

I'm shaking right now we're not going out there what is this look at it look at the updraft what is this wizard of oz that's insane look at that i've never seen this in real life before either it just cruising along wow look at that oh my god it's forming it's forming it is look at how big it is at... Read more

Heat Returns to the West and Cool, Wet Weather Coming for the East | #WeatherAM thumbnail
Heat Returns to the West and Cool, Wet Weather Coming for the East | #WeatherAM

Category: News & Politics

[music] uh so glad you can join us on the weather network it's time for weather a.m. thursday september the 5th my goodness the month is already speeding by you know there's different ways to get around the beautiful city of vancouver time-lapse video from ryan vodan from a boat love seeing that perspective... Read more

August 25: Hurricane Harvey Hammers Houston thumbnail
August 25: Hurricane Harvey Hammers Houston

Category: News & Politics

[music] [applause] i have mentioned that there are two hurricanes that are equal to one another monetarily as the costliest of their kind in american history hi i'm chris may writer producer and host of this day in weather history now in its second year from the weather network in canada with that we... Read more

Spring Storm Threatens Heavy Rain and 10 cm of Snow for Ontario thumbnail
Spring Storm Threatens Heavy Rain and 10 cm of Snow for Ontario

Category: News & Politics

Well we've got special weather statements for much of southern ontario for the influx of rain heavy at times and the risk of thunderstorms across parts of southern ontario very bluster winds that could lead to power outages and with cold air to the north that will be pushing southward we'll see a transition... Read more

Heat Wave Puts Pressure on Calgary to Better Conserve Water thumbnail
Heat Wave Puts Pressure on Calgary to Better Conserve Water

Category: News & Politics

We could see an increase in water consumption and we are concerned if we're are going to go above the 500 uh million ler threshold officials in calgary hope that late summer vacations can help offset a late summer heatwave as mandatory water use restrictions continue we also know that with the good... Read more

Asteroid Explodes Over Philippines Hours After Being Discovered thumbnail
Asteroid Explodes Over Philippines Hours After Being Discovered

Category: News & Politics

W oh my god a spectacular fireball lit up the sky just after midnight local time on september 5th over the northern philippines eyewitnesses captured the moment it burned up as it plunged into earth's atmosphere finally named 2024 rw1 the approximately 1 m asteroid was small enough to be considered... Read more

Chaotic Scenes From Super Typhoon Yagi as It Barrels Through Southeast Asia thumbnail
Chaotic Scenes From Super Typhoon Yagi as It Barrels Through Southeast Asia

Category: News & Politics

Super typhoon yagi continued its rampage on september 7th after causing these intense scenes in hyan china the day before yagi also known as makar had already caused more than a dozen deaths in the philippines earlier in the week with more people reported dead or missing in its wake on friday powerful... Read more

Warnings Issued for Heavy April Snow Across Eastern Ontario, Quebec thumbnail
Warnings Issued for Heavy April Snow Across Eastern Ontario, Quebec

Category: News & Politics

A substantial early spring snowfall will be impacting eastern ontario and southern quebec today went through southern ontario on tuesday now it makes its way down the 401 corridor into the ottawa valley with heavy rainfall rates for your wednesday evening commute home quickly transitioning to heavy... Read more

Everything You Need to Know about Weather Radar thumbnail
Everything You Need to Know about Weather Radar

Category: News & Politics

[music] which started as a science experiment a hundred years ago is now responsible for tracking planes your speeding tickets and weather we're talking about radar environment canada has a network of over 30 radars spanning the country constantly monitoring the skies these radar stations work similar... Read more

Deputy Narrowly Avoids Being Trapped by a Raging Wildfire thumbnail
Deputy Narrowly Avoids Being Trapped by a Raging Wildfire

Category: News & Politics

This intense video shows how quickly a wildfire can turn on august 23rd sergeant jonas from the rosebud county sheriff's office in montana was checking a camping area to ensure the safety of the visitors as the remington fire approached the area in the video the fires can be seen near the road but it's... Read more