It’s an extra long Easter weekend for some students in the Maritimes. Snow, ice pellets, and freezing rain caused many schools in the region to close or delay opening Thursday.
All schools in Nova Scotia’s Lunenburg County are closed as well as schools in Antigonish Town and County and Guysborough County. Most other schools were delayed opening.
Many school buses in New Brunswick were running on a one-hour delay. Petitcodiac Regional School in Petitcodiac, N.B., is closed.
All schools on Prince Edward Island were delayed opening an hour.
WEATHER WARNINGS
A freezing rain warning remains in effect in Nova Scotia’s Queens County Thursday morning.
Environment Canada says most areas have warmed enough for the freezing rain to transition to rain, but inland areas remain just below freezing and some additional icing is possible.
The warning adds surfaces such as highways, roads, walkways and parking lots may become icy and slippery.
POWER OUTAGES
As of 9 a.m., there were nine unplanned outages in New Brunswick affecting 279 NB Power customers.
In Nova Scotia, there were 32 outages affecting 585 Nova Scotia Power customers. The largest outage was in the Truro area affecting more than 300 customers.
Meanwhile, there were only two outages in P.E.I. affecting Maritime Electric customers in Northam and Baie-Egmont.
TRAVEL
Halifax Stanfield International Airport advises travellers that Thursday's weather may cause flight delays or cancellations.
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