Snow storm to impact southern Manitoba over the next 24-36 hours, cool weather to follow.

 Much of southern Manitoba looks to get impacted by a snowstorm heading into Friday, a lot of northern North Dakota including some regions of southeastern Manitoba has been experiencing heavy snowfall in the Sprague, northwest angle, and the southeastern sections of Manitoba. Unfortunately impacts look like they are going to stay with us into remembrance day. Find out when and where the heaviest impacts will occur, and what you can expect for the rest of the weekend. 

Forecast snowfall and storm system location around 3am local time. Snowfall forecast graphic is below.. 

Tonight: A strong powerful low pressure system will sit over northern North Dakota tonight dropping upwards of 20 to 40cm of snow over northwest North Dakota, and impacts extending into southern sections of Manitoba. Areas of southwestern Manitoba, the parklands, the interlakes, and western Manitoba will likely escape the snow itself. Snow has already begun and it will persist into the next 24-36 hours, cloudy skies are likely overnight with snow and winds gusting to 40 to 60km/h out of the northwest resulting in reduced visibility Highway travel isn’t recommended. Even within city limits visibility may be down to zero at times.

Generally 15 to 25cm of snow will likely fall along the American border in south central Manitoba into the pembina valley, areas along the edge from southwestern Manitoba into Winnipeg , the red river valley and eastern Manitoba will see 10 to 15cm of snow possibly. Overnight low temperatures will likely drop into the low to mid minus single digits, some areas may feel colder in the low to mid minus teens with the windchill in the interlakes and western Manitoba on the edge of the snow . Areas in eastern Manitoba will see low windchills in the low to mid minus teens. 

Friday: Snow should begin to taper off by the morning, with a lot of local blowing snow continuing through the  afternoon. There will be a chance for flurries through the afternoon with mostly cloudy skies expected, except the interlakes regions where sunny skies are likely. unfortunately because of the snowfall overnight temperatures will struggle to rise above freezing. Highs in the day Friday will rise into the low to mid minus single digits, windchills likely sit just around -10C to slightly above around -11 to -12C. 

Friday Night: High pressure will likely move in and that’s when we are likely going to see some of the coolest temperatures overnight that we have seen since last spring. Temperatures on Friday night will drop into the high minus single digits and some areas could see wind chills in the low to mid minus teens, around -10 to -15C especially in western Manitoba where the coldest windchills will be. . 

Saturday and Sunday: High pressure looks to build in and this weekend calmer weather likely as well, Saturday expect a mix of sun and cloud with high temperatures in the mid minus single digits. Wind chills will likely sit in the high minus single digits and low minus teens. Saturday night will see increasing clouds. Overnight lows will stay on the mild side as cloudy skies keeps the warmth in and acts as a blanket, which will end up resulting in lows in the high minus single digits with windchills in the low minus teens. Sunday will see a chance for cloudy skies and high temperatures in the low to mid minus single digits, also it looks like windchills will be in the same range. Sunday night a chance for flurries is likely and low temperatures will drop into the high minus single digits with some areas around the red river valley seeing lows in the low minus teens. A good chance of seeing similar windchills on Sunday night in the low minus teens and high minus single digits.