Southern Manitoba is in for some winter weather as lots of snow and wind are heading across the prairies Tuesday afternoon and evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We have a low-pressure system that’s developing in Montana right now,” says James Colangelo, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada (EC). “That’s spreading quite a lot of snow throughout the southern prairies.”<\/p>\n
The system will start dropping precipitation between snow and freezing rain in the south-western part of Manitoba before hitting Winnipeg in the evening on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Quite a bit of snow expected for Winnipeg. It looks like by the end, we’ll see 15-20 centimetres. The system will be giving fairly strong easterly winds, today and tonight through southern Manitoba, with gusts up to 60 km\/h.”<\/p>\n
The weather system is expected to move through the province slowly, with most of the snow falling on Wednesday throughout the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The heaviest snow starts to taper off overnight Wednesday, but there will still be lingering snow through the day on Thursday.”<\/p>\n
Western Manitoba will receive the highest snowfall accumulation, expecting 30-35 centimetres of snow.\u00a0<\/p>\n
With the wind gusts, Colangelo says, “It could be treacherous driving out there. Quite a big storm and pretty treacherous, especially commuting across the highway.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Southern Manitoba is in for some winter weather as lots of snow and wind are heading across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-480838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}