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This is the current conditions weather report for Truro. The report was made 36 minutes ago, at 04:00 UTC. The wind was blowing at a speed of 18.5 kilometers per hour / 12 miles per hour with gusts up to 18.5 kilometers per hour / 12 miles per hour from the northwest (310°). The temperature was -9°C / 16°F, with a dew-point at -9°C / 16°F. The temperature felt like -16°C / 3°F. The relative humidity was 86%.

Truro (2001 population 11,457; area population 44,276) is a town in central Nova Scotia, Canada. Truro is the shire town of Colchester County and is located on the south side of the Salmon River floodplain, close to the river's discharge point into the eastern end of Cobequid Bay.

The neighbouring village of Bible Hill is home to the Nova Scotia Agricultural College, the only university-level agricultural institution in Atlantic Canada (it is operated by the Nova Scotia Department of Agriculture).

Truro itself is home to a campus of the Nova Scotia Community College, located on the campus of the former Nova Scotia Teachers College, a normal school operated by the Nova Scotia Department of Education.

The town and surrounding area have a variety of cultural events throughout the year, most famously a tulip festival, held each spring, and the bike race held by Hub Cycle.

Today, Truro is known as the "Hub of Nova Scotia" as it is located at the junction between the Canadian National Railway, running between Halifax and Montreal, and the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway, running between Truro and Sydney. Until the 1980s, Truro also hosted a junction between the Canadian National and Canadian Pacific Railway's former Dominion Atlantic Railway line running through Windsor and down the Annapolis Valley to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.

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