UPDATE: All advisories mentioned in this story have ended
SASKATOON – Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning Saturday in Saskatoon and other parts of west-central Saskatchewan. A low pressure system is expected to bring a significant amount of snow in the Saskatoon-Battlefords area.
The agency is forecasting around 10 centimetres of snow to fall overnight.
Although the Prince Albert region is in the warning area, the City of Prince Albert is expected to receive five to 10 centimeters of snow.
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Further south, ice build-up is expected or occurring due to freezing rain.
At 7:40 p.m. weather radar is showing an area of freezing rain extending from just southwest of Kindersley southeast through Swift Current. This system is expected to track eastward throughout the evening reaching the Moose Jaw area late Saturday evening.
The Highway Hotline says travel is not recommended in the Kindersley area due to icy roads and drifting snow.
Environment Canada is reminding motorists that there will be significant icing of roadways and other surfaces including the Trans-Canada Highway west of Regina to the Alberta border in the next few hours.
The freezing rain should change to snow or end overnight.
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Snowfall warning ISSUED for:
- Lloydminster
- Saskatoon
- Martensville – Warman – Rosthern – Delisle – Wakaw
- Prince Albert – Shellbrook – Spiritwood – Duck Lake
- The Battlefords – Unity – Maidstone – St. Walburg
Freezing rain warning ISSUED for:
- Assiniboia – Gravelbourg – Coronach
- Kindersley – Rosetown – Biggar – Wilkie – Macklin
- Moose Jaw – Pense – Central Butte – Craik
- Outlook – Watrous – Hanley – Imperial – Dinsmore
- Swift Current – Herbert – Cabri – Kyle – Lucky Lake
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