Peter Coade's weather synopsis for March 23, 2015

The centre of our first Spring snowstorm, after having tracked along the coast of Nova Scotia on Saturday, took a left turn at Cape Breton and moved into the Gulf Of St. Lawrence yesterday afternoon.

The centre can be found early this morning in the vicinity of Goose Bay, Labrador.

Although seemingly quite a distance from the Maritimes, it intensified to the extent that we will experience its strong westerly wind today. Where that wind blows across open waters flurries can be expected.

However, an area of high pressure to our west will be building into the region providing mostly fair weather today with the exception of those wind-generated flurries.

This fair weather feature will provide the area with fair weather until mid-week after which time another disturbance will roll in from the west on Thursday and bring some showers and flurries as well as milder temperatures.

Afternoon temperatures, after today’s much colder than normal readings, will start to turn a bit milder each day until rising to well above the normal with the arrival of that disturbance on Thursday (near 10 degrees or so).

There are indications that another disturbance will be following close on the heels of Thursday’s to bring another bout of rain and snow to the region on Friday.

Once again, in the wake of these disturbances over the weekend, temperatures will fall to colder than the norm.