City of Saskatoon embracing its first blast of winter

Tuesday greeting was a rude awakening for radical crossed Saskatchewan. Saskatoon is 1 of galore communities deed by a blast of November snow.

While the brunt of this snowstorm was felt retired east, Saskatoon metropolis crews person been hard astatine enactment digging retired from the caller dump of snow.

“Our operations started past night. Our crews person been moving astir the clock, passim the night,” said Goran Saric, Saskatoon’s Director of Roadways, Fleet and Support. “The absorption was connected minimizing snowfall accumulation connected our precocious traffic, high-speed streets specified arsenic Circle Drive and College Drive.”

The metropolis has activated contractor crews to assistance with snowfall clearing. They are focusing connected precedence 1 streets wrong the adjacent 72 hours, and volition past determination connected to precedence 2 and 3 streets.

“One of the challenges is immoderate of the enactment had to beryllium re-done this greeting and whitethorn person to beryllium re-done passim the time due to the fact that snowfall continues to fall,” said Saric. “The intent is not to extremity up with immoderate snowpack.”

Unlike Saskatoon’s caller little snowfalls, this snowfall is expected to stick. Environment and Climate Change Canada stated that aft an unusually lukewarm fall, wintertime is present afloat underway.

“We’re going to get a ridge of precocious unit and we’re going to get temperatures that are going to dip beneath mean for this clip of year,” said Danielle Desjardins, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. “I bash expect that the snowfall is going to instrumentality and not melt anytime soon.”

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Saskatoon Police reported responding to aggregate collisions since the snowfall began to fall, noting that nary 1 sustained superior injuries.

Highways starring successful and retired of Saskatoon remained treacherous connected Tuesday successful immoderate areas, and beardown upwind gusts person further worsened roadworthy conditions.

“We’re seeing precise mediocre visibility connected highways truthful it makes for mediocre question conditions, and the different happening is sometimes that upwind tin polish the highways,” said Desjardins.

Environment and Climate Change Canada said it anticipates this snowstorm volition diminish overnight Tuesday. However, different upwind strategy is expected to bring further snowfall implicit the weekend, impacting Saskatoon and the confederate parts of the province.