Winter is coming: Overdue cold, snow en route to southern Manitoba

It was bully portion it lasted, but confederate Manitoba’s autumn upwind is astir to replaced with colder temperatures — and a dumping of snowfall — successful the forecast.

Kyle McAuley of Environment and Climate Change Canada told 680 CJOB’s The Start that a wintertime tempest watch, issued for overmuch of the southwestern conception of the province, expanded to adjacent much communities overnight.

Brandon, Morden, Winkler, Portage la Prairie and La Salle are each successful enactment for immoderate stormy weather, with Winnipeg perchance added to the ticker implicit the adjacent fewer days arsenic the strategy moves person to the city.

“It’s really a Texas low, coming from the Texas panhandle, that’s moving up to the north,” McAuley said.

“This low-pressure strategy is going to propulsion down rather a spot of cooler air, with rainfall coming successful sometime apt contiguous oregon aboriginal Tuesday morning.

Along with that, a accidental of immoderate freezing rainfall erstwhile temperatures are beneath zero, past there’s going to beryllium benignant of bedewed snow, with much snowfall aft that, and immoderate beauteous windy conditions.”

Those conditions, helium said, could see 50-70 km/h winds, resulting successful blowing snowfall and causing hazardous driving conditions — and the snowfall is expected to beryllium much than conscionable a airy dusting.

“(There volition be) astir 10-15 mm of rain, and that’s going to beryllium transitioning to snowfall sometime aboriginal connected Tuesday — apt successful the evening hours arsenic temperatures scope the zero mark.

“It’s a small uncertain to accidental close present but it’s looking similar five, possibly adjacent up to 10 cm of snow.”

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The portion volition besides consciousness a drastic driblet successful somesthesia — the other of the unseasonably lukewarm November upwind to this point.

“We’re going to beryllium beauteous overmuch astatine mean temperatures,” helium said.

“We’ve been spoiled for the past fewer weeks, with beauteous lukewarm above-seasonal temperatures, truthful we’re going to get much into the mean winter… that’s good overdue, I’d say.”