Rainfall warning issued as up to 100 mm expected in N.B.

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· Posted: Mar 06, 2025 7:04 AM EST | Last Updated: March 6

An unseasonable upwind strategy could dump much than 100 millimetres of rainfall successful immoderate parts of New Brunswick Thursday, raising the hazard of localized flooding and overflowing creeks and rivers, says Environment Canada.

The national upwind bureau has issued rainfall warnings for ample parts of central, confederate and occidental New Brunswick, with rainfall totals reaching 60 millimetres along the Fundy coast, arsenic good arsenic "some indications rainfall totals could surpass 100 mm locally."

Environment Canada's advisory does not specify which parts of the state are expected to person 100 millimetres of rain.

The upwind strategy besides brought freezing rainfall overnight to bluish parts of the province, according to CBC meteorologist Tina Simpkin.

Those areas see Northumberland, Gloucester and Restigouche counties, with the freezing rainfall expected to modulation to rainfall by aboriginal day arsenic temperatures rise, she said.

Heavy rainfall on with gusty southerly winds are expected to persist into Thursday evening, adjacent successful areas extracurricular of the rainfall informing areas, she said.

Temperatures are expected to emergence to betwixt 3 and 10 Celsius Thursday, with southerly winds blowing astatine 30 km/h, with gusts up to 60 km/h.

Higher gusts are expected on areas of the coast, she said.

Overnight into Friday

Rainfall is expected to lessen overnight, with temperatures dropping to betwixt 1 and 6 Celsius, and winds reducing to 20 km/h, gusting to 50 km/h, Simpkin said.

Skies volition beryllium chiefly cloudy going into Friday, with rainfall transitioning to snowfall starting successful the westbound and moving eastbound going into the afternoon.

Temperatures volition driblet anyplace betwixt –4 to 0 Celsius with westerly winds of 20 km/h, gusting to 50 km/h.

Rainfall totals for Friday volition beryllium betwixt two and 5 millimetres for confederate parts of the province, and bluish regions could spot betwixt two and 5 centimetres of snow.