Much of southern Manitoba is in for extremely cold weather heading into the weekend. Environment Canada issued an extreme cold warning for many areas Friday afternoon.
Cold arctic air is heading into southern Manitoba and is expected to result in temperatures dipping as low as -30 C which could feel like -40 C or colder with the windchill. The winds are expected to pick up to 20 kilometres per hour overnight and into Saturday morning.
The cold arctic air will stick around southern Manitoba over the weekend and winds are expected to redevelop Saturday night and into Sunday resulting in extreme wind chills once more.
Heading into Monday temperatures should begin to warm up and return to normal according to Environment Canada.
Full list of communities under the extreme cold warning:
- Virden – Souris
- Brandon – Neepawa – Carberry – Treherne
- Melita – Boissevain – Turtle Mountain Provincial Park
- Killarney – Pilot Mound – Manitou
- Winnipeg
- Selkirk – Gimli – Stonewall – Woodlands
- Portage la Prairie – Headingley – Brunkild – Carman
- Dugald – Beausejour – Grand Beach
- Morden – Winkler – Altona – Morris
- Steinbach – St. Adolphe – Emerson
- Dauphin – Russell – Roblin – Winnipegosis
- Minnedosa – Riding Mountain National Park
- Ste. Rose – McCreary – Alonsa – Gladstone
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