Arctic air is moving in after nearly half a metre of snow fell in parts of Saskatchewan.
Blast of Snow Hits Saskatchewan
Snow continued to fall Tuesday morning in Saskatoon and parts of central and eastern Saskatchewan as an inverted trough lingered over the area.
Melville takes the cake for highest snowfall totals from these past two systems, with 43 centimetres reported.
39 cm was reported in Prince Albert with Saskatoon receiving approximately 25.4 cm since March 2, 2018, with a base reported to be as high as 43.2 cm –still much less than Holbein’s 73.7 cm on the ground.
An additional two to four centimetres fell in southeastern Saskatchewan during the day on Tuesday.
Saskatoon Forecast
Tuesday
Saskatoon added approximately 1.3 cm of snow to our total by 7 a.m. Tuesday morning as light snow fell right through the morning.
-18 is what it felt like during the morning with wind chill as temperatures sat around -12 before the mercury warmed up into minus single digits before noon.
Light snow eased during the afternoon with clouds clearing out into the evening as we rose up to a daytime high a few degrees into minus single digits.
Wednesday
After a chilly start to the day with wind chills potentially as cold as -30 with a mix of sun and cloud to start the day before more clouds roll in later on.
Despite the cold start, we should manage to make it up into minus single digits for an afternoon high with wind chills in the minus teens all day.
Thursday-Friday
Thursday will be another cool, but fairly sunny day with temperatures around the -20s and morning wind chills as cool as the -30s to start before popping up into minus single digits in the afternoon.
Our next wave of snow is expected on Friday as clouds associated with the next system move in, but this one will come with milder air, with a daytime high expected to spike into mid-minus single digits.
Weekend Outlook
Behind Friday’s system will be a big upper ridge of high pressure that’ll warm us right up toward and possibly even above the freezing mark this weekend and bringing us back into beautiful blue skies and sunshine.
Doreen Stumborg took the March 6 Your Saskatchewan photo in Saskatoon:
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