Snow on way to N.B., but it's not likely to stick around

Hannah Rudderham · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 24, 2025 9:55 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Winter isn't implicit yet for New Brunswick, contempt immoderate double-digit temperatures and sunny days this month.

Environment Canada has issued snowfall warnings for a ample chunk of the province, excluding overmuch of the north.

Jill Maepea, a Fredericton-based meteorologist with Environment Canada, said a quick-moving strategy is going to bring astir 15 centimetres of snowfall to an country bordered astir by St. Stephen successful the southwest through Fredericton and eastbound up to Miramichi.

On either broadside of that line, successful areas including Woodstock, Florenceville-Bristol, Saint John, Moncton and Cap-Pelé, person to 10 centimetres of snowfall is expected, Maepea said.  

The snowfall is expected to statesman aboriginal Monday day and proceed done aboriginal Tuesday morning.

According to the statements and warnings from Environment Canada, the snowfall volition beryllium mixed with crystal pellets adjacent the Fundy Coast and there's besides a hazard of freezing rain. 

Maepea said March arsenic a period is typically the modulation from the wintertime to spring, truthful it is not uncommon to person highly adaptable conditions specified arsenic those New Brunswickers have been seeing. 

"We volition spot these lukewarm spells; we'll besides spot these acold spells," Maepea said. 

And portion it volition snowfall overnight, temperatures are expected to emergence supra the zero people again connected Tuesday, she said, starring overmuch of that snowfall to melt rather quickly.

The Monday into Tuesday tempest is portion of a larger system, said Maepea, but determination is simply a accidental of immoderate lighter precipitation passim this week. 

"We won't spot a batch of sunshine and those warmer temperatures," she said. 

"We mightiness beryllium a small spot beneath seasonal for this clip of year, conscionable owed to this unsettled signifier that we are anticipating."