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An ice and snow storm led to school closures and poor road conditions in New Brunswick Thursday.
All districts affected except Anglophone South and Francophone schools in the Saint John area
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· Posted: Mar 12, 2026 5:53 AM EDT | Last Updated: 21 minutes ago
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Ice pellets start to accumulate on a Fredericton sidewalk on Wednesday afternoon. (Sam Farley/CBC)
A snow and ice storm led to the closure of most New Brunswick schools Thursday.
The only exceptions were schools in the Anglophone South district, as well as Saint John area schools in Francophone South.
As of 6 a.m., highways across the province were partly to fully covered with snow, ice and slush, according to New Brunswick’s Department of Transportation and Infrastructure.
As of 8:40 a.m. there were 15 outages reported by N.B. Power affecting 670 customers, mainly in Kent and central York counties.
A yellow or moderate warning for hazardous winter conditions in northern New Brunswick was continued by Environment Canada at about 5 a.m. Thursday.
Freezing rainfall of five to 10 mm mixed with ice pellets was forecast to end early Thursday afternoon.
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