{"id":468809,"date":"2026-02-11T21:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468809\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:17:12","slug":"swath-of-heavy-snow-to-bring-difficult-travel-to-parts-of-atlantic-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/468809\/","title":{"rendered":"Swath of heavy snow to bring difficult travel to parts of Atlantic Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snow will be heavy and wet, even slushy, in nature, with temperatures hovering near 0\u00b0C along the coast.<\/p>\n<p>Greatest snow totals are forecast across Nova Scotia and eastern P.E.I. where 15-20+ cm is forecast.<\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/2jM6dnnITv6mJ7LwXh9MeU\/c3f9fe9c7b325e8ef269be51dcf45b30\/image3.png\" alt=\"Halifax, N.S., heavy snowfall intensity\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770844632_885_image3.png\"\/>Snow spreads into Newfoundland Thursday<\/p>\n<p>By early Thursday, accumulating snowfall pushes across Newfoundland as the warm front associated with the low lifts northward.<\/p>\n<p>A warm front may drive temperatures above the freezing mark across eastern Newfoundland, transitioning to a rain-snow mix, while wet snow continues over central and western areas.<\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/6ujQY8tCCuA84W6ELMyMh3\/92883cd05972d927435e012eed27803b\/image4.png\" alt=\"Atlantic Canada snowfall forecast through Friday\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770844632_534_image4.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Heaviest snowfall totals are forecast for northern and western parts of the island where 15-20+ cm is forecast.<\/p>\n<p>Questions about the upcoming snowfall<\/p>\n<p>Will the low be windy?<\/p>\n<p>A: Not particularly, gusts will generally remain below 60 km\/h across Nova Scotia. But sustained winds of 20-30 km\/h are still likely to cause some blowing and drifting snow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Snow will be heavy and wet, even slushy, in nature, with temperatures hovering near 0\u00b0C along the coast.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,3613,6765,44,132791,11738,5097,3623],"class_list":["post-468809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-maritimes","tag-newfoundland","tag-news","tag-polar-vortex","tag-snow","tag-temperatures","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}