| Fortunately, it looks like the winter storm will be over by tomorrow, or at least we'll be a good 12 hours behind it in any case. It took me a while to dig out this afternoon, to get ready for my 5am departure.
Environment Canada:
But the big weather story Wednesday will be in the Maritimes, where a potentially brutal mix of snow, ice pellets, heavy rain and wind gusts topping 120 kilometres an hour 140 km/h in the Wreckhouse area of southwestern Newfoundland will move up from the eastern seaboard and merge with the system from Ontario.
In New Brunswick, the storm will be mostly snow, but in parts of Nova Scotia, the snow and wind will change to ice pellets and finally heavy rain anywhere from 20 to 40 millimetres as temperatures rise overnight from -7C to 8 degrees.
This is a very significant event for the Maritimes, Environment Canada meteorologist Geoff Coulson said.
The system that moved through [Ontario] is going to re-energize itself now with moisture and energy from the Atlantic Ocean, he said. At midday local time, the cloud shield associated with the Atlantic system stretched from the tip of Newfoundland all the way down to Florida, Mr. Coulson added.
It is a very, very healthy system. ... It's just a massive area of cloud and precipitation. | 
