REGINA – People in eastern Saskatchewan may be enjoying temperatures near 20 C, but the Water Security Agency has a warning to go with the warm weather.
The agency says above seasonal temperatures combined with significant snow cover in the Assiniboine River Basin, north of Yorkton, could mean a rapid snow melt.
The agency says it doesn’t expect major flooding, but warns there could be some out-of-bank flows and the potential for some roadways to be overtopped.
Flows in the Assiniboine River basin are above normal with many locations still on the rise from the snow melt.
The water security agency says it’s a result of wetter-than-normal fall conditions and above-normal precipitation in March and early April.<
It says the rapid melt of the remaining snowpack may also result in above normal flows and some localized flooding in the Swan, Red Deer and Lower Carrot river basins.
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