Nova Scotia highway webcams are operated by the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal (TIR). Most are mounted on tall steel towers which have weather sensors included on the tower. The sensors measure temperature, humidity, barometric pressure and wind direction and speed. There are now 47 highway cameras on the department's website. Images from all of Nova Scotia's highway cameras are available online at the
Highway Cameras Page. The page receives up to 250,000 visits per month in winter.
The webcam pic below is more or less real time and will update every 30 to 40 minutes, depending on conditions.
About 5 kilometres north of the little community of Mabou, near the western coast of Cape Breton Island, this camera looks down from atop its tower on the east side of Highway 19. It looks south down the highway opposite a large hay field, with not much else around other than the odd farm.