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news, halifax. >> A portion of a major street in downtown halifax is set to undergo a long-term closure due to the cogswell district project. The project involves the realignment of barrington street, the construction of a new halifax transit hub, and the relocation of four bus bays in front of scotia square as a result, barrington street will be fully closed from upper water street to duke street. 30 bus routes passing through barrington and the surrounding area will be rerouted, and the four impacted bus bays will be relocated. The new halifax transit hub is expected to open by the end of the year, will include new heated shelters, additional seating space, among other features. Let's say good morning and happy friday to ross-hull. Ross, you're going to have to carry the show for me this morning, sir. I was out till 11. I went to bed at 11 last night after an east coast lifestyle foundation event in bayers lake, and then I was awoken by the sounds of thunder, I think at 1 A.M. was I dreaming or was that real? >> No, you were not dreaming. I can confirm, paul. There was a thunderstorm reported at halifax stanfield and around the area overnight, the good news is, most of the rainfall will have cleared. We've got some mist and some fog out there, but we unfortunately had to get through it overnight and wake you up. But good for you for staying on, because I know getting to bed that late can be a big challenge and you got to rest because you've got some other important activities heading into the weekend, right? >> Yes, exactly. On sunday afternoon, I'll be in lower sackville. I believe it's acadia park for the mass walk event for 2024, which the timing of that is much more in my wheelhouse, like 2:00 in the afternoon. So I'll be ready to rock for that event and looking forward to the walk. Coming up for a great cause. Yeah. And where I have to come in is I have to provide some good weather for you. >> Right. This weekend and for all those activities. And I think I can deliver on that. So yeah. Let me take this on for you, paul. You take a little break there and let's show you what actually did move through the area earlier on. You can see some of the thunderstorm activity, some of the rainfall activity that did move through a closer look here. You can see it's pushing towards the east though cape breton into it early this morning. But for the most part, much of nova scotia going to stay dry today. Another weak front is going to push through new brunswick, bringing the chance of some showers and the risk of a thunderstorm, but it certainly won't be a washout. What you will notice, though, the reason why we did see those thunderstorms and woke up paul, is the fact that it was a cold front, so it's not going to be quite as humid today. Still above average for many spots, just not that humidity into the high 20s, low 30s. Even higher than that that we've been experiencing of late. It's still pretty mild out there mid teens, low double digits for most areas and we will get back up to the 20s around halifax today. A little cooler farther east. Some areas that do experience a little more shower activity and still into the high 20s mid to high 20s as you head to places like fredericton and moncton today so you can see that chance of a shower or thunderstorm this afternoon. We should stay dry across much of nova scotia and then heading into saturday, a few clouds, sun, cloud mix should stay dry for all areas. A few scattered showers, northeastern new brunswick and then on sunday ms-walks sun cloud mix. It will be a little cooler, so likely temperatures between 16 to 18 degrees around halifax, most areas around the hrm. And then we'll get into a little more of an unsettled pattern into early next week. So let's break it down for you. For fredericton, 22 degrees a sun cloud mix 21 on sunday, a little more cloud cover on monday, and we're looking at some wet weather into early next week. We actually do need it because rainfall has run below average this month for halifax and the hrm. We're getting up to low 20s on saturday. Sun cloud mix, perhaps a little bit more cloud cover on sunday. And there's that cooler air mass 16 degrees slightly off our normal or average high 14 on monday. And then we'll have to watch out for some rain heading into tuesday and wednesday. Hope you all have a great weekend, including you paul. And that's a look at your ok-tire-weather. >> All right, same to you. Thanks for this ross-hull. And before a break, let's have a look at gas prices in nova scotia, up 0.8 cents per liter to sit at $1.76 point $0.04 a liter in halifax and sydney. Dollar 78.4 cents a liter with diesel at buck 75.4 cents per liter. That's a look at your local news headlines. 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