A Better Wednesday Before Another Unsettled Stretch
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Tuesday brought just about everything somewhere across Newfoundland and Labrador — rain, strong winds, snow in parts of Labrador and even an impressive round of thunderstorms early in the morning.
A warm front moving across eastern Newfoundland helped produce 462 lightning strikes between roughly midnight and 5 or 6 AM, stretching from Fortune Bay and the southern Avalon toward Bonavista Bay. That activity is long gone now, but the low responsible for the unsettled weather is still hanging around Labrador.
Snow has also been showing up in some of the higher terrain of Labrador, including around Cache River between Churchill Falls and Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Down in the Churchill Valley itself, temperatures have generally been a little too mild for much snow to stick.
Across Newfoundland, showers will gradually become less widespread tonight. Winds remain gusty in some areas, particularly along parts of the south and southwest coasts, but those will also begin easing as we head through Wednesday. The good news is that Wednesday gets better as the day goes on.
There may still be some lingering showers early, along with a little high-elevation snow in northern Labrador, but those should wind down by around midday. Sunshine becomes more common through the afternoon, including across southern and eastern Newfoundland, and by Wednesday evening much of the province should be under mostly clear skies. Temperatures will remain on the cool side. Newfoundland will generally see highs around 10°C to the lower teens, while Labrador stays colder with highs between about 4°C and 9°C.
Unfortunately, the quieter weather doesn’t last very long. Another area of low pressure moves in from Quebec Thursday, bringing more rain to Labrador along with some snow in the north. That system continues east Thursday night into Friday, eventually spreading showers into western, southern and central Newfoundland Friday morning. Eastern Newfoundland should also get into some showers by late morning or around midday.
The weekend doesn’t look like a washout, but it does look unsettled and chilly. Saturday and Sunday will both have opportunities for showers, and western Newfoundland is getting close to the point where some of those showers could mix with wet snow or graupel, particularly Saturday night into Sunday and especially over higher terrain.
That’s a pretty good sign of where we are in the season now.
Labrador will remain colder as well, with rain showers and flurries continuing in some areas late this week before another push of colder air arrives over the weekend. Labrador West may not be too far away from seeing its first daytime high below freezing of the season.
There’s also something happening much farther south that I’ll be keeping an eye on. A tropical disturbance has a very high chance of developing over the next couple of days, and guidance suggests it could potentially become the first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season by Friday or Saturday. That would be remarkably late for the basin to record its first hurricane.
For our weather, though, the immediate story is simpler: Wednesday brings a welcome improvement, another round of rain and snow arrives later Thursday into Friday, and the weekend starts looking
