Island warm up brings rain to end week, until it doesn’t
Ryan Harding, NTV Weather Centre
For Newfoundland over the next 36 hours, it’s going to rain and there isn’t too much more to it than that. Aside for some high-end wind on the south and eastern side of the island, rain is the forecast for Thursday and most of Friday. For Labrador, a mix of rain and snow. Labrador – feel free to scroll to the bottom.
The highest island totals are reserved for the south coast, with a yellow-level rainfall alert indicating a two-day total having the potential to reach 80 mm.
Really, the island is going to experience a similar and consistent day and a half, in terms of totals and overall sentiment of the day. The south coast can anticipate the highest totals each day, with the north side seeing lower totals than the middle. These single day totals range from 5-40 mm.
The biggest difference for Friday in Newfoundland is going to be the wind. While 70-90 km/h can be reached on the south and east side Thursday, we’re back to breaching the century mark Friday afternoon through the evening in the usual gustiest locations. Then Friday evening, it changes.
It’s that south-southwest wind that is fueling an island-wide warm up and thaw. However, you can see in the image above, by late Friday afternoon, the wind is more west than south. This is bringing temperatures back down out west, with a north wind further north finishing the day with snow.
Early Friday evening snow totals range from 5 cm on the west coast to upwards of 20 cm for St. Anthony.
Labrador’s Thursday is a mixed bag. Temperatures jump above zero along the south coast, allowing rain to be the story. While Happy Valley-Goose Bay and further north can expect snow, adding totals into Friday.
I’ll have more on Friday’s totals province-wide tomorrow.