Nova Scotia forecast calls for rain and unstable conditions

It's been a long stretch of damp and unstable weather, but Saturday looks to be the kind of day that could prompt a thank-you note to Mother Nature.

Until then, we're still playing host to a broad area of low pressure that is quite content to camp out. Conditions will remain unstable this evening and won't really start to improve until tomorrow afternoon, when the soggy weather heads elsewhere for the weekend.

Tonight

Showers continue tonight in northern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, where most areas can expect between 2 and 4 mm, but some localised areas in the west could see up to 10 mm.

Elsewhere, it's mainly cloudy skies with a chance of showers tonight. Winds will come in from the northwest at 20 km/h to 40 km/h and low temperatures will be steady between between 7 C and 8 C.

The gradual clearing pattern begins mid-day tomorrow, from the northwest to the east, all thanks to a weak ridge of high pressure that is building in.

There could still be some lingering showers in the first part of Friday, but most of that will end in the late morning or early afternoon.

Winds may be calm but they will keep conditions cool again tomorrow. It looks like most areas can look forward to a dry night on the patio, but unfortunately it will also be a cool one.

That ridge will continue to clear skies out overnight on Friday, setting up for the only sunny and warm day of the week on Saturday.

Enjoy it while it lasts, because more rain is set to move in late Sunday and it will make for the start of another wet week.