Winter storm coats Atlantic Canada with ice

Saturday, March 26, 2016, 9:01 AM - A system that caused more than 100,000 outages in southern Ontario Thursday night coated the Maritimes in rain, snow or freezing rain.

Places in southern New Brunswick experienced around 20 hours of freezing rain, enough to leave ice accretions of several millimetres on trees, power lines and untreated surfaces along a line stretching through central parts of the province through to western Prince Edward Island.

Nova Scotia also saw some freezing rain before a switchover to rain, while northern New Brunswick saw significant snow, with Bathurst picking up around 20 cm by Saturday morning.

By Saturday morning, N.B. Power was reporting only a few hundred people without power, and all freezing rain warnings in the Maritimes had dropped.

However, some freezing rain warnings were still in effect for Newfoundland, including the northern Avalon peninsula and St. John's, though freezing rain will taper off in the morning.

"Surfaces such as highways, roads, walkways and parking lots may become icy and slippery," Environment Canada says. "Be prepared to adjust your driving with changing road conditions."

Temperatures across the region will be below seasonal Saturday, slowly climbing into Monday. However, another system is set to bring rain to the region in the early week, with the potential of some snow as well.

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