Parts of Nova Scotia expected to get as much as 25 centimetres of snow
Friday evening's commute looks messy as snow expected to fall throughout the day
Nova Scotians might be in for a messy commute Friday evening as another winter storm bears down on the province.
Multiple schools are closed and others dismissed early across Nova Scotia as another winter storm is expected to dump as much as 25 centimetres.
Environment Canada has issued snowfall warnings for several counties from Digby, along the Atlantic coast through Halifax to Sheet Harbour.
Between 15 and 25 centimetres of snowfall is expected to fall throughout the day beginning in western Nova Scotia early Friday morning and spreading to the eastern mainland by the afternoon.
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—@nsemoThe storm will bring five centimetres of snow during the day, which may make for a slippery evening commute.
The heaviest snowfall — another 10 to 20 centimetres — across the province will come Friday evening and overnight, tapering off into Saturday morning.
The Halifax Regional Municipality announced that its winter parking ban will be in effect Saturday from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. This will allow crews to clear streets and sidewalks.
All schools in the Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education, the Tri-County RSB and CSAP schools in Clare, Argyle and Greenwood are closed for the day.
Hants County schools in the Chignecto-Central RSB will dismiss students one-hour early, while the South Shore RSB dismissed students three hours early. Elementary CSAP schools in the Halifax area dismissed students at noon and high school students at 1:15 p.m.
NSCC has closed several of its campuses.