Snow wallops western Manitoba, but Winnipeg remains wet

Depending wherever you woke up successful Manitoba Wednesday morning, you could beryllium faced with snowfall oregon rain.

Winnipeg has been deed by non-stop rain, but successful occidental Manitoba, snowfall has prompted schoolhouse and road closures.

Shannon Moodie of Environment and Climate Change Canada told 680 CJOB’s The Start that a Texas debased deed the occidental portion of the state with snow, stalling retired implicit the Red River Valley.

The tempest has besides led to unsafe driving conditions, acknowledgment to beardown winds and blowing snow.

“In the Red River Valley we’ve been a small spot luckier, due to the fact that the debased is benignant of close implicit us,” Moodie said.

“But successful the west, they’re truly successful a choky northwest gradient — Brandon’s been seeing winds that are astir sustained astatine 60 km/h, with gusts encroaching connected 80.”

Brandon, Moodie said, saw astir six centimetres of snowfall overnight, portion successful Winnipeg, things volition proceed to look beauteous bedewed for the clip being.

“The Winnipeg airdrome reported 28.5 millimetres, and conscionable a small spot much astatine the Forks, truthful we’re truly looking astatine Winnipeg receiving astir 30 millimetres of rainfall yesterday.

“The airdrome is already reporting snow, but our somesthesia is hovering astir zero, truthful we’re truly going to spot bedewed snowfall today. Things are going to commencement to chill disconnected aboriginal this day into the evening and that’s erstwhile we’re going to spot a fewer much flakes that volition fall.”

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And portion a snowstorm has yet to marque its mode to Winnipeg, the city’s manager of thoroughfare attraction says the metropolis volition beryllium acceptable if and erstwhile it does.

“We’ve been acceptable for immoderate changes successful temperature,” Michael Cantor told 680 CJOB.

“We person brackish trucks monitoring the roads and our bridges to marque definite thing is icing up. So acold truthful bully — the roads look beauteous bully this morning, and we’ll proceed to monitor.”

Cantor said rainfall tin lavation distant the brackish and de-icing liquid, which is wherefore it hasn’t been done pre-emptively.

“If thing changes, we’ll dainty the roads … but until then, we’ll conscionable beryllium monitoring and we’ll hold for immoderate either icing up oregon accumulation.”