ATLANTIC CANADA SUFFERS 3rd STORM IN A WEEK

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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sun Jan 23rd 2005- Atlantic Canadians looking out their windows Sunday saw nothing but a wall of white as another fierce blizzard pounded the region.

The nor'easter blew in just after dawn, bringing heavy snow, strong winds and whiteout conditions to areas that had already seen an average of 40 centimetres of snow this week. Sunday's storm was the third blizzard in just seven days to hit the Atlantic provinces, after a storm Monday paralyzed the region and one on Thursday brought more snow and school closures.
The Halifax area was expected to get between 30 and 60 centimetres of snow by day's end, while Environment Canada forecast parts of Cape Breton could be shovelling 70 centimetres of the white stuff by early Monday.

Strong winds gusting up to 100 kilometres per hour made driving treacherous, leaving the downtown streets of Halifax eerily quiet.

By midday Sunday almost all flights in and out of Halifax International Airport had been cancelled until late evening.

Connell said plows were keeping the airport runways constantly cleared, sanded and salted in case conditions improved and flights could continue.

Blizzard warnings were in effect all day Sunday for the whole of Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and all but northeastern New Brunswick.

The storm was expected to hover over the region until Monday afternoon when it was forecast to move on to Newfoundland.

Parts of that province will barely have had time to dig out from a separate system that walloped the eastern coast on Saturday, dumping more than 60 centimetres of snow in the St.John's area.

Conditions were so bad at times that the Department of Transportation and Works was forced to pull most of their plows off the roads in the areas between St.John's and Bonavista, including the Trans-Canada Highway.
-justin-

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