{"id":61751,"date":"2026-01-17T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=61751"},"modified":"2026-01-17T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:00:00","slug":"snowfall-warning-issued-for-most-of-n-s-for-sunday-night-into-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=61751","title":{"rendered":"Snowfall warning issued for most of N.S. for Sunday night into Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56501&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ELMSDALE\/LOWER SACKVILLE:<\/strong> A yellow warning for snowfall has been issued by Environment Canada for most of Nova Scotia, excluding parts of Cape Breton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The impact level of the forecast, issued at 10:39 pm on Saturday night, has a high confidence level from officials with Environment Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snowfall with total amounts of 15 to 25 cm is expected across most of Nova Scotia between Sunday evening through Monday morning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snow, heavy at times, will begin over Nova Scotia on Sunday evening. Some communities may see precipitation start as rain, but a quick changeover to snow is expected by mid evening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56526&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Temperatures will hover near zero in many areas so the snow is expected to be wet, dense, and difficult to clear by hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conditions will quickly improve across the province on Monday morning. Roads and walkways will likely be difficult to navigate due to accumulating snow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local utility outages are possible. Take frequent breaks and avoid strain when clearing snow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56376&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Snowfall warnings are issued when significant impacts are expected due to snowfall accumulations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To report severe weather, send an email to <a href=\"mailto:NSstorm@ec.gc.ca\">NSstorm@ec.gc.ca<\/a> or post reports on X using <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?src=typed_query&amp;q=%23NSStorm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">#NSStorm<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information about the alerting program, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/services\/environment\/weather\/severeweather\/weather-alerts\/colour-coded-alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colour-coded Weather Alerts<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56509&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELMSDALE\/LOWER SACKVILLE: A yellow warning for snowfall has been issued by Environment Canada for most of Nova Scotia, excluding parts of Cape Breton. The impact level of the forecast, issued at 10:39 pm on Saturday night, has a high confidence level from officials with Environment Canada. Snowfall with total amounts of 15 to 25 cm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5258,4394,10120,48,237],"class_list":["post-61751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-environment-canada","tag-hants-county","tag-heavy-snow","tag-n-s","tag-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}