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PHOTOS: Snow vanishes from Manitoba as temperature records fall

Josh Wright tweeted these photos of a Portage la Prairie yard taken March 5 and 15. Josh Wright / Twitter

WINNIPEG – Temperatures in communities scattered across southern Manitoba reached record highs on the weekend.

Landscapes are remarkably different from a year ago as double-digit temperatures quickly melt what was already less snow than what was on the ground in 2014.

Click markers on the map to get details about weekend weather records.

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Records were set in Gimli (15.2), Gretna (18), Pinawa (13.8) and Sprague (15.7) on Sunday. Records fell in Winnipeg (13.2), Brandon (14.9), Dauphin (15.4), Gretna (15.8), Melita (14.8), Pilot Mound (14.4), Pinawa (13.3), Portage la Prairie (16.6) and Sprague (12.6) on Saturday.

The comparison between 2014 and 2015 is very obvious in this picture sent in from Chandra Hermanson. Chandra Hermanson / Global News

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The difference from last winter, a long, cold season, was marked, with people sharing their photos from last year and this on social media.

Here are some of the photos our weather watchers have shared with us:

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Do you have photos of the same location from 2014 and 2015? Send them to us at Winnipeg@globalnews.ca and we’ll share some.

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