We have been enjoying some more seasonable weather these past few weeks, very November-like days with flurries and showers and generally cloudy skies and gusty winds. Well this week is going to flip that on its head a little bit, as we get stuck in a pattern where an area of low pressure gets trapped to our south. The end result will be days and days of east to northeasterly flow, which will bring much warmer than normal temperatures for all of eastern Canada.
While some might consider that good news (I don’t…), it does also come with some universally bad news. For parts of Newfoundland in particular, the next 7 to 10 days looks like we could see 100 to 200 mm of rain. Under normal conditions, I don’t think that would be a massive problem, however we’ve already recently had a bunch of rain, so I think we’re going to be dipping into a greater risk of flooding this time around. Maybe we’ll get lucky and it won’t do anything too bad, it does often depend on how fast it comes down. But with streams and ponds likely already running pretty high, the water may not have anywhere to go.
In Labrador, although we might get a bit more snow early this week, the trend should be towards a pretty significant thaw. Bad news for anyone depending on winter being winter.