A special weather statement is in effect for the island portion of the province this week.

Rob Carroll with Environment Canada says a messy system will be moving into southwestern areas of the island late Tuesday evening. It will then spread up to the west coast overnight and to the rest of the province on Wednesday morning.

Environment Canada says eastern Newfoundland can expect about two to five centimetres on Wednesday, but it will fall during the morning rush hour. The Great Northern Peninsula may see about 20 centimetres.

He says it will be quite windy as well making for a messy couple of hours of snow and blowing snow. Winds could gust to 150 km/h when the storm reaches the Wreckhouse area and up to 110 km/h over most coastal areas.

Carroll says there is the possibility of freezing rain and ice pellets as snow changes to rain. As for weather for the next few weeks, Carroll predicts that more messy systems are on the way.

Carroll says it looks like we will fall into a pattern of storms for the next couple of weeks. He says they will likely take the same path, and conditions will be messy.