Second round of snow moving into the Maritimes Tuesday evening

One round of April snow is clearing Nova Scotia, but meteorologist Kalin Mitchell says another round is headed for the Maritimes.

One round of snow, mostly impacting Nova Scotia, continues to clear Tuesday afternoon while a second round of snow, more substantial for New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, is on the way for Tuesday evening and night.

I only have some very preliminary and unofficial snow reports for Nova Scotia. Most of them are from volunteer observers and from early Tuesday morning when the snow was still falling and accumulating. Some updated observations are available from a couple of sites in Nova Scotia, including the Yarmouth Airport with five centimetres, Greenwood in the Annapolis Valley with three centimetres, and Halifax International Airport with centimetres.

While 12 centimetres is a significant snowfall for early April, it doesn’t come close to matching the records for an April 8 for the Halifax area. Those records include 25 centimetres of snow at Halifax International and 18 centimetres on snow at Shearwater falling on April 8, 1963.

Some snow has fallen in southern areas of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, but more is on the way. Snow ramps up for central and southern areas of New Brunswick by early Tuesday evening. It will remain light in northern areas of that province.

Snow rates will increase for Prince Edward Island between 9 p.m. and midnight. There will be periods of additional snow for parts of Nova Scotia Tuesday night. The snow then eases to patchy flurries for the Maritimes by early Wednesday morning.

There will be pockets of five-to-10 centimetres of snow for central and southern New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, including Fredericton, Saint John, Moncton, Summerside and Charlottetown. Parts of Nova Scotia could pick up an additional one-to-five centimetres of snow.

The biggest impact continues to be snow or slush covered surfaces making things slippery.