April 29th Mid Day Update: Increased Fire Weather, Smoke, Some Showers And Wild Temperature Swings.4/29/2024 In our Mid day update today, we will be focusing a lot on the Fire conditions and Fire weather, For latest forecast you can go to our StormTracker Forecast page! where the 7 day forecasts for 8 regions are updated and the 24 hour forecast. Looking at the latest Satellite/Radar + Smoke Particles, We can see a lot of red dots over Northern Nova Scotia, this is showing where there are some fairly high smoke particles in the upper atmosphere. Hazy/Smoky skies can be seen over Northern Nova Scotia. We have a lot of clouds out there at the moment over much of the province, and that is because we have a very weak system located near Guysborough County, A weak low pressure with an occluded front, We also have a Cold front that stretches down from Labrador to Northern New Brunswick, this is bringing clouds and some cooler temperatures, it also brought rain showers to some part of the province this morning. There is a very large High pressure located over in Quebec, and this will bring a lot of sunshine and nice temperatures to most of Southern Nova Scotia tomorrow! however, cooler and cloudy conditions expected in the North. Currently there is a Low to Moderate fire danger risk, highest over Northern NS and Cape Breton. There is a Very high and Extreme fire risk out on the Southern Prairies right now! The province wide fire ban that was in place yesterday and earlier this morning, has been lifted to almost everyone, the only exception is Cape Breton East, where in Cape Breton County and Richmond County, a no burn ban remains in place. Everywhere else, where it's Orange, is under Restricted burning, burning is only allowed between 7PM and 8 AM. Currently, we still have 5 active wildfires burning in our province, 2 are in Yarmouth County, 1 in Kings County, 1 near the border of Hants and Colchester County, and we have 1 in Far North Eastern Halifax County. In the last 7 days, so just this week alone, there has been 17 new wildfires! Luckily, there has been no new wildfires in the last 24 hours. The wildfires in Yarmouth County have been burning for the past 2 days now, since April 27th, and have burned up to 1ha, the fire is considered under control. The Wildfire in Kings County near North Mountain, has been burning for almost 5 days now, since April 25th, the fire is small and has only burned 0.25 ha so far, the fire is considered under control. The Wildfire in Hants County near the Colchester county border, has been burning since yesterday, So far it has burned 0.90ha and is under control. The Wildfire in Halifax County halfway between Tangier and Sheet Harbour has been burning for the past 2 days, since April 27th. This fire has burned 1ha so far, and is also under control. We had some rain last night, between the hours of 3AM and 9AM this morning, a trace to 3mm has fallen over Southern and Mainland Nova Scotia. Not enough to help with the fires! Will we see anymore rainfall to help out in the fires or bring the risk of them lower? well yes and no, There will be a chance of showers today, more so likely in the Valley and Western Nova Scotia and parts of Northern Nova Scotia. Unfortunately, these will be very light, and wont accumulate to much at all. Fast forward into Tonight/ early tomorrow morning, the ocean storm looks to pass closer to us, and bring colder air down with it, looking like we could see some light snow flurries or light snow over Northern and Western Nova Scotia. By Tuesday Night into early Wednesday morning, a weak cold front will produce some showers over the province. some of these MIGHT be more steady, but overall, they will be very light, and little accumulation is expected. Upper air conditions at 500mb, We have that cut off low pressure/ trough south of Newfoundland, this is bringing North-Westerly winds which will keep things rather cloudy and cooler tomorrow, there is a nice ridge farther south of us, This will stick around with us for a good while, at least through Friday! By this weekend, we will see a change in the weather! A large Ridge will bring warmer and even slightly humid conditions for the weekend into early next week. Temperatures on Saturday will be in the low to mid 10's. With the warmer temperatures just to our West and South. On Sunday, temperatures will be even warmer in the mid and upper 15's! coolest along the coast near the water! Northern Nova Scotia could see temperatures reaching near 18 degrees! In New Brunswick, a very warm day is expected there with temperatures flirting with 20-degrees. On Monday of next week, there will be a slight cool down! temperatures into the low 10's, but look what is south of us! low and mid 20's! from Maine to New York! This will head our way for Tuesday and Wednesday of next week! Tuesday is when temperatures really start to warm up! highs on Tuesday will be in the 18 to 24 range! Warmest in the South Shore. Check out those yellows and oranges over in PA, NY and MA. Mid and Upper 25's!!! could have feel like temperatures in the low 30's. For us, we'll have a little touch of humidity to bring a feel like temperature of 26 to 30 in our area.
So if you're craving the warmth, don't worry it is coming! temperatures will soar near 20 by the weekend!
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