Winnipeg and much of southern Manitoba woke up Monday morning to a dumping of snow — to the tune of 15-20 cm — and Environment and Climate Change Canada says it’s not over yet.
Meteorologist Chris Stammers told 680 CJOB’s The Start that Winnipeg should expect more of the white stuff over the next couple of days, but not quite as much as Sunday night’s snowfall.
“It continues to snow — we’ll be looking at some light snow for today and even a chance tonight, and then it looks like another centimetre or two tomorrow,” he said.
“Nothing like the heavy wet stuff that was coming down yesterday… but it looks like we’ll be seeing some light snow for the next 24-36 hours.”
Stammers said Winnipeggers should expect a blast of cold after this system, with lows in the minus-20s arriving Wednesday night.
“Windchills (will be) around -37 and even colder for Thursday, where we’ll see temperatures approach -30 overnight and wind chills closer to -40.
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“So fully expect some extreme cold warnings to be issued across the province, if not Wednesday, for sure Thursday — that’s for wind chills around -40 or colder.”
With all the snow, CAA Manitoba’s been very busy.
The auto club told 680 CJOB’s The Jim Toth Show that it received hundreds of calls from drivers needing emergency road service on the weekend.
“Over the course of that time, we received about 537 calls — 46 per cent of those calls were tow and winch calls,” said spokesperson Nadia Matos.
Matos said when the city gets big dumps of snow, there are some steps Winnipeggers can take so they’re not part of the problem.
“Driving according to the weather conditions and knowing that snow is going to make things a lot (more) slippery and slick… it’s really important to drive to those weather conditions.”
Matos also suggests drivers get winter tires if they can — or simply stay home if they don’t have to go out when the weather gets wild.
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