Messy winter weather is headed to the Maritimes this weekend, while some in the region are still digging out from the snowy wallop brought by Tuesday’s blizzard.

CTV Atlantic meteorologist Cindy Day is calling for a mix of freezing rain and snow to hit the region overnight and into Saturday.

She is calling for up to 35 centimetres of snow in New Brunswick and up to 20 centimetres for eastern P.E.I.

Nova Scotians, meanwhile, can expect 20-25 centimetres in the corridor between Digby and the Annapolis Valley, through to Amherst and western P.E.I., she says.

The rest of the province will get some snow, quickly turning to freezing rain and then rain as temperatures warm, she says.

The winter wallop comes days after Tuesday’s blizzard, which blanketed parts of the Maritimes with snow, nearly 50 centimetres fell in Saint John, and closed schools and offices across the region.

In Fredericton, where Winterfest is about a week away from bringing its famous slides and snow mazes to the city, organizers are remembering the years without the white stuff.

“We would haul from parking lots or wherever we could access a mound of snow,” said event spokesperson John Antworth.

This year, though, they have plenty of snow, but another dump can’t hurt, he said.

“It will just whiten it up, make it prettier.”

At Winterfest grounds and elsewhere in the city, the new question is where to put it all.

Snowclearing crews across New Brunswick have been hard at work for days, and in Fredericton the work is starting to take its toll.

“The same guys who plow the streets are the same guys who have to haul the snow out of the downtown or push the snowbanks back. It’s all the same crews,” said Mike Walker, manager of Fredericton’s roads and streets division.

“When you have back-to-back-to-back storms it does wear on them,” he said.

The impending storm, which is expected to leave the region late on Saturday or on Sunday, is giving travellers cause for concern.

In Nova Scotia, where the snow is expected to be mixed with ice pellets, people are being warned to stay off the roads.

The storm could impact air travel at Maritime airports as well.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Nick Moore