Weekend brings sun, rain, snow and high wind to Newfoundland and Labrador
Ryan Harding, NTV Weather Centre
This weekend brings a little bit of everything to Newfoundland and Labrador as the deep freeze leaves and the province pushes for spring-like temperatures and conditions.
While Newfoundland enjoys a sunny Saturday, Labrador sees snow
The weekend kicks off with a continuation of the sun and cloud across Newfoundland. As well, the wind shift south and thaws the island from those bitter windchills, pushing towards above seasonal day-time highs.
The wind does pick up early into Saturday evening, specifically on the western portion of the island. At the same time, a small amount of mixed precipitation makes landfall, blemishing what will have been a lovely Saturday.
Meanwhile, Labrador is experiencing a warmup as well, but not warm enough to bypass the snow. That Big Land snow starts late Friday night in Labrador West and spends Saturday traveling west to east, leaving a range of 5-20 cm along the way. Coastal Labrador enjoys a few evening breaks while Labrador West is looking at a consistently snowy Saturday and the final totals reflect this.
Sunday flips bringing rain to Newfoundland and sun to Labrador
The warmup continues in Newfoundland Saturday, with some regions even pushing for ten degrees. It’s all fueled by increasing south winds that will pick up to average gusts of 60-90 km/h across Newfoundland as a whole.
The trade off for the warmer temperatures is the rain. The range is a wide 5-60 mm with the Metro region slated for 10-20 mm and the south and west coast along with the Burin and southern Avalon Peninsula in a 20-50 mm window.
This has the grey highlighted regions below in a special weather statement for not just rainfall, but also localized flooding with the anticipated snow melt. The green is a downright rainfall alert and the yellow on the Northern Peninsula is a wind warning, reflecting the ability to hit 100 km/h o the coastline Sunday evening.
It all starts at midnight along the West Coast and Northern Peninsula. By early Sunday morning the South Coast and Central will be under the rain. By late morning the eastern side of the island is looking to start a 12-hour period of rain. There are a few moments in the afternoon of some on-again-off-again rain in the Metro region, however the Avalon returns to the consistent rainfall come sundown. Of note, some mixed precipitation moves across the Baie Verte Peninsula Sunday evening as a north wind drops temperatures back below zero.
