The effects of a messy storm that brought snow and freezing rain to Nova Scotia on Thursday are hampering travel today and giving many students a long weekend.
Classes are cancelled at all public schools in the Annapolis Valley, Cape Breton-Victoria, Chignecto-Central, Halifax, South Shore, Strait and Tri-County regions.
Many private schools for elementary and high school students have also closed for the day.
Acadia, Saint Mary’s and Mount Saint Vincent universities, and the Atlantic School of Theology have cancelled classes. Cape Breton University won’t hold classes this morning and will decide by 11:30 a.m. if school will be on later today.
NSCAD University has shut down classes for Friday as well as all NSCC campuses, except Burridge and Shelburne which have delayed opening until 9 a.m., and its Wagmatcook Learning Centre.
All Halifax public library branches have delayed opening until 1 p.m.
Two AUS curling championship games have been moved to 10:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m.
Some municipalities have also postponed curbside waste collection till another day.
Almost all flights in and out of Halifax Stanfield International Airport for this morning are cancelled or delayed, according to its website.
Nova Scotia Power and salt truck crews were gearing up ahead of time for the storm but although roads crews have been busy trying to keep roads safe, freezing rain so far has not been a big problem for the power utility. As of 10 a.m., its outage map showed one large power outage due to freezing rain, affecting more than 3,000 customers, in Kearney Lake and surrounding areas.
“Crews are out in force across the province scraping and salting roads and highways,” the Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal Department said on Twitter at 8 a.m.
SaltWire meteorologist Cindy Day said Thursday that temperatures will rise above freezing in Halifax by Friday morning.
“By (Friday) afternoon, much of mainland Nova Scotia will be on the warmer side of the system,” Day said.
Along the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia through to Digby is under a rainfall warning, seeing 20-40 millimetres in a short period of time, Day said.
But roads will go back to being slick after a rapid temperature drop Friday.
“Saturday morning could be nasty,” Day said.
Watch Cindy Day’s latest forecast here
Emergency information:
More to come
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