Maritime weather: Sunny, hot weekend expected [Video]

Friday pop-up showers and thunderstorms

Watch for scattered showers in southeastern New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and northern/eastern Nova Scotia Friday afternoon into early evening. The atmosphere is a bit on the buoyant side with warm, humid air at the surface below cooler, drier air aloft. That means that, along with the showers, some small thunderstorms will be possible.

This is all driven by daytime heating, so, as we lose that in the evening, the showers and thunderstorms will dissipate and end.

There will be a few clouds and some very patchy fog/mist overnight into Saturday morning.

Isolated, pop-up thunderstorms possible within some showers Friday afternoon into early evening.

Sunny side up this weekend

A ridge of high pressure building in from the west will be large and in charge for our weekend weather.

Expect mostly sunny conditions on both Saturday and Sunday. The nights will have just a few clouds and a bit of patchy fog.

No precipitation is expected in the region this weekend.

A mostly sunny …