**Updated at 4:44 p.m. Friday**
A winter storm could bring as much as 30 centimetres of snow to parts of southern New Brunswick on Saturday.
Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning Friday morning for extreme southern regions of the province, including Saint John, the Kennebecasis Valley, Sussex, and Charlotte County.
The warning was extended Friday afternoon to include Moncton and southeast New Brunswick.
The national weather agency says most areas under the snowfall warning can expect 15 to 25 centimetres.
“The highest accumulations will occur over areas along the Fundy coast where locally higher snowfall amounts could approach 30 cm by the storm’s end late Saturday evening,” the weather agency said in a statement.
Strong east to northeast winds gusting to 70 kilometres per hour may also lead to reduced visibility in blowing snow.
Meanwhile, a special weather statement has been issued for the rest of southern and central New Brunswick, including:
- Kent County
- Grand Lake and Queens County
- Oromocto and Sunbury County
- Fredericton and southern York County
- Woodstock and Carleton County
- Stanley-Doaktown-Blackville area
Those areas, according to forecasters, could see near 15 centimetres of snow.
“At this time some uncertainty remains in the track of this weather system and a slight move to the north would shift the areas of heaviest snowfall,” said Environment Canada.
