Winnipeg weather

WINNIPEG – WEATHER – Environment Canada states “Do not plan to travel – this storm has the potential to be the worst blizzard in decades.

Travel will become increasingly difficult as the day progresses Wednesday, with widespread highway closures a near-certainty. WINNIPEG – WEATHER – Environment Canada states “Do not plan to travel – this storm has the potential to be the worst blizzard in decades. By Wednesday morning heavy snow will be falling in much of the area as the storm continues to push northward, and snow accompanied by strong northerly winds is expected to continue right through to early Friday morning as the low slowly pivots through Minnesota on it’s way into northwestern Ontario.

By Friday, conditions should improve as the winds taper off and the band of heavy snow moves into northern Ontario. However, the clean-up from the storm will ...

“Do not plan to travel – this storm has the potential to be the worst blizzard in decades. “Travel will become increasingly difficult as the day progresses Wednesday, with widespread highway closures a near-certainty,” Environment Canada says. The weather agency issued a winter storm watch on Monday for the major spring blizzard poised to wallop southern Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan mid-week.

Environment Canada has now issued a winter storm watch for all of southern Manitoba. That comes a day after a special weather statement was issued, and winter ...

A major spring blizzard "poised to wallop" southern Manitoba for three days this week could be the worst in decades, Environment Canada says.

As of Apr 10, Winnipeg has had 174 cm of snow so far this winter. "It'll take a couple of days, but perhaps by Sunday we'll be back into some travelling." "This one will rival the storm back in 1997, when Winnipeg picked up 48 cm of snow," Sauder said. Although things should ease up through Good Friday, temperatures won't be warm enough to start melting the heap of snow. "So yeah, this could be one those storms where we see the city kind of shut down and stores closing. Storm forecast to move slowly over nrn MN thru Thu before heading east pic.twitter.com/8SCNjBeEW8— @robsobs