All schools in the Halifax area will be closed on Monday due to the excessive snowfall experienced throughout the region on the weekend.
In a release on Sunday, the Halifax Regional Centre for Education said that all of the district’s 137 schools will be closed to allow for ongoing snow clean-up at schools and throughout Halifax.
“Based on information from EMO, all HRCE schools will be closed tomorrow, Monday, February 5, 2024,” the statement read, adding that weather projections calling for an additional 1o to 15 centimetres overnight contributed to the decision to close on Monday.
“School sites may not be fully clear by morning and HRM streets and sidewalks may not be fully clear by morning,” the release said.
All Chignecto Central Regional Centre for Education schools — which includes schools in the East Hants, Colchester, Cumberland, and Pictou areas of Nova Scotia— will also be closed on Monday due to the snow.
In a release on Sunday, Conseil Scolaire Acadien Provincial (CSAP) said all of the department’s schools in its Metro and North cluster will be closed Monday.
The Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education, an area that has experienced the most significant amount of snowfall, also announced on Sunday that classes are cancelled for Monday.
As of 1:30 p.m., the Strait Regional Centre for Education, the other school district in Cape Breton, had yet to make an announcement.
Most Nova Scotia Community College campuses will be closed on Monday. A full list can be found here.
St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish has announced it will remain closed on Monday “given the conditions it will take time to make the campus fully accessible and safe to reopen.”
Environment Canada has said an additional 15 to 25 centimetres of snowfall could happen in Halifax area before tapering down to scattered flurries on Monday.
Eastern parts of Nova Scotia, which includes New Glasgow through to Cape Breton, was expected to receive another 30 to 50 centimetres, with wind gusts of up to 80 kilometres per hour.
The weather agency says the northeastern part of the province and Cape Breton were expected to have 20 to 30 centimetres of wet snow on the ground by Sunday morning, with a further 30 to 50 centimetres to fall by Monday.
— With a file from the Canadian Press
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