WINNIPEG – Significant overnight and morning snowfall has created a slow commute in Winnipeg and closed many rural Manitoba schools.
Hanover, Seine River, Sunrise, Red River Valley, Borderland, Evergreen, Lord Selkirk and Interlake school divisions and Sagkeeng First Nation School are all closed. Winnipeg’s Louis Riel School Division has no busses running outside the Perimeter Highway.
Visibility is poor on highways and the morning commute in Winnipeg is slow and treacherous as multiple crashes are reported on snowy city roads.
Route 90, Route 52 (St. Mary’s Road), Lagimodiere Boulevard and Pembina Highway are among the main Winnipeg routes showing major delays.
A crash has closed Highway 67 east of Stonewall, Man., the Manitoba provincial road report says.
The RCMP report poor driving conditions due to zero visibility and snow-covered roads on Highway 75 from Winnipeg to Morris and Highway 59 from Winnipeg to St. Malo.
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A series of weather disturbances is producing three separate snowstorms in southern Manitoba, Environment Canada said.
The first dropped around five centimeters of snow near the Trans-Canada Highway across the province Wednesday afternoon and evening, with five to 10 cm falling north of the highway. The second moved in overnight and is currently moving through eastern regions, following almost the same path as the first and dropping a similar snow depth.
A third snowfall is expected to move through southern Manitoba Thursday afternoon and evening, adding another five centimeters of snow to the total.
The temperature at Richardson International Airport at 8 a.m. was -8 C and the forecast was for a high of -4 C.
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