A warm evening Tuesday night will soon be a forgotten memory, as a bone chilling wind will make it feel like a winter day.

A warm evening Tuesday night will soon be a forgotten memory, as a bone chilling wind will make it feel like a winter day.

Environment Canada says Halifax Regional Municipality can expect a feel-like temperature in the -18°C range by Wednesday night.

HRM had double digit temperatures on the plus side on Tuesday, but metrologist with Environment Canada Ian Hubbard says a major temperature swing is in the short term forecast.

"We will see a large temperature drop during the day with temperatures falling anywhere from minus 5 to minus 10 over Nova Scotia and with the strong winds it will feel even colder," says Hubbard.

He says a large push of cold air and strong winds will persist into Wednesday evening.

"Behind this low it will get windy again and those winds will be coming from the west or north-west," he says. "Right now we are looking at gusts up to 80 km/h over most of the Atlantic coast."

The MacKay Bridge is currently closed to heavy and high sided vehicles due to the strong winds rip through the region.

Environment Canada says there is a 30 per cent chance of flurries Wednesday evening and the temperature overnight will stay steady near -5°C, feeling like -17°C.