The vast weather depression coming from the south which has affected the Atlantic provinces since Sunday by dumping significant quantities of freezing rain in several places will reach several sectors of New Brunswick and eastern Quebec on Monday.
Environment Canada predicts that 10 to 20 millimeters of freezing rain should fall in the Matapédia Valley, in Bonaventure, Chandler, Murdochville and Gaspé, in the Gaspé Peninsula, as well as in the Havre-Saint-Pierre region, on the North Shore. This freezing rain is expected to change to rain Tuesday night.
In the regions of Rimouski and Matane, in Bas-Saint-Laurent, as well as in those of Baie-Comeau, Sept-Îles and Blanc-Sablon, on the North Shore, freezing rain precipitation will be less significant: 2 to 4 millimeters should fall on Monday.
Bad weather caused power outages in Newfoundland and Labrador on Sunday; 2,000 Newfoundland Power customers were affected by mid-afternoon in various parts of the island portion of the province. Environment Canada predicted Sunday that 60 to 90 millimeters of rain would fall through Monday morning.
Freezing rain turned to rain in southern Nova Scotia on Sunday, while freezing precipitation was expected to persist into the evening in northern Nova Scotia.
Bad weather caused delays at Halifax Stanfield International Airport, while ferry crossings were canceled on Sunday between Digby, Nova Scotia, and Saint John, New Brunswick, due to high waves and winds in the Bay of Fundy.
Between 25 and 45 millimeters of rain was forecast for Nova Scotia through Monday.
In New Brunswick, freezing rain fell on southern and central parts of the province on Sunday and heavier amounts of freezing rain are expected through Tuesday.
In a warning issued early Monday morning, the federal agency did not specify the expected amounts, but said a prolonged period of sleet and freezing rain was expected to spread across most of the province through the evening in Moncton, Fredericton , Miramichi, Bathurst, Edmundston and Campbellton.