A Colorado low storm system is bringing “heavy” snow to parts of Saskatchewan and Manitoba on Thursday.
Setting Canada issued a particular climate assertion for areas near Yellowgrass Lang and Lewvan, Sask., and parts south of Winnipeg.
Manitoba’s capital metropolis and the encircling space are beneath a snowfall warning as of Thursday morning. Accumulation totals might be between 10 to fifteen centimetres, the Setting Canada warning reads.
Greater snow quantities are anticipated in western Manitoba close to the Driving Mountains, the climate company says.
The snow is anticipated to taper off Thursday night into Friday earlier than transferring into northwest Ontario, CTV Your Morning’s meteorologist Kelsey McEwen mentioned.
Forward of the Colorado low system, the area round Armstrong, Auden and Wabakimi Park, Ont., are beneath a particular climate assertion attributable to a “transient interval” of freezing rain.
Components of northern Ontario skilled a warm-up on Wednesday, sufficient to interrupt warmth information in Armstrong, Atikokan, Greenstone, Lansdowne Home, Nipigon, Upsala and Marathon, a climate alert from Setting Canada reveals.
It was heat sufficient in Nipigon, a city northeast of Thunder Bay, to interrupt a report beforehand set in 1925. On Feb. 7, the the climate company recorded a each day temperature excessive of 6.2 C, breaking the 99-year-old report for that day of 5.6 C.
Setting Canada expects precipitation to fall early Thursday morning.
McEwen mentioned temperatures are growing in southern Ontario and Quebec, bringing an increase in humidity as nicely.
The temperature change prompted Setting Canada to concern fog advisories to the Higher Toronto Space, Barrie and St. Catharines, Ont.
“Black ice might type in areas the place temperatures are beneath freezing attributable to freezing fog,” the advisory reads.
The “patchy dense fog” is anticipated to carry by Thursday morning.
McEwen mentioned the Colorado low system is anticipated to maneuver throughout Ontario and Quebec, transferring into Atlantic Canada over the weekend.
Out west, a big portion of Alberta residents might be waking as much as dense fog inflicting near-zero visibility, an Setting Canada fog advisory reads.
Some areas round Calgary and Edmonton may additionally expertise freezing drizzle making surfaces slippery.
The unhealthy climate is anticipated to carry all through the day, the advisory from Setting Canada reads.
