Cold Start to the weekend with a Gradual Warmup

 Much of southern sections of Manitoba is in for a calm weekend weather wise ; except for a large swath of snow that will move through southern archons of Manitoba on Saturday evening. At the moment there are snow squalls coming off of lake Winnipeg, there is narrow bands of it occurring at the moment. What I’m looking at this weekend is a warm front moving through southern sections of Manitoba on the evening on Saturday, on the east side of it temperatures will sit in the low to mid to high minus teens on Saturday in south central and southeastern Manitoba with areas in southwestern Manitoba warming into the mid to high minus single digits.

On Saturday night a band of snow will move through southern sections of Manitoba bringing with it a brief, but heavy band of snow along with it. A good chance of  3-5cm is likely with snow and blowing snow, travel isn’t advised on highways in reduced visibilities on Saturday evening.  Temperatures on Saturday night will drop into the low to mid minus teens. On Sunday a much warmer airmass will filter into our region, thanks to a westerly flow developing over our area this will definitively mark the beginning to a longer stretch of warmer weather. Sunday high temperatures will rise into the low to mid minus single digits with overnight lows in the high minus single digits on Sunday night. This warmer weather pattern will continue into the week with high temperatures in the low to mid minus single digits, and overnight lows continued in the low minus teens and high minus single digits.