Alerts: Birchy Bay, NL

A low pressure system currently south of Cape Cod will track northeastward tonight and through the Gulf of St. Lawrence Sunday morning to lie across Southeastern Labrador later on Sunday. Strong southerly winds and heavy rain ahead of this system has started to develop over Southwestern Newfoundland and will continued to spread elsewhere tonight and tomorrow. Rainfall accumulations will be highest along the south coast where 40 to 55 millimetres are expected. Parts of Eastern Newfoundland and the Northern Peninsula will see closer to 30 millimetres. The strong southeasterly winds are expected to gust between 100 to 130 km/h for most coastal regions of Newfoundland beginning later overnight or Sunday morning. In the Wreckhouse area, southeasterly winds will gust to 190 km/h will beginning late overnight before diminishing by noon as winds veer to southerly. Additionally, high waves and pounding surf will impact the south and the east coast of the Avalon on Sunday evening. This could result in minor flooding in low lying coastal areas for areas exposed to the southeast.