Significant Wind Storm and Snowfall To Start Off the Week Across Manitoba; Gusts Over 90km/h Possible

It’s almost the end of March and we’re well into spring, but the weather across Manitoba tomorrow morning and throughout the day will make it feel more like winter. A strong system developing over the Alberta Rockies is expected to move into the province Monday morning and into the afternoon bringing with it the threat of very strong wind gusts in the south and widespread snowfall to the north.

We’ll see the strongest gust in Extreme Southwestern Manitoba including Brandon, Portage La Prairie, Roblin and Virden with the maximum wind gusts ranging from 90-105km/h. The rest of Southern Manitoba will see wind gusts close to over above damaging levels around 8-95km/h including Winnipeg, Swan River and Gimli. The strong gusts will develop during the afternoon on Monday and continue into the evening before weakening overnight Monday.

For Southern Manitoba, we’re not expecting much in terms of snowfall with maybe a few flurries accumulating to up to 2cm. The heavier snowfall will be focused further north through the Interlake region with between 6 - 12cm of snowfall accumulation expected for Swan River, Dauphin, Peguis. Even higher totals are expected further north for The Pas and Norway House where snowfall and winter storm warnings are in effect from Environment Canada calling for between 15-25cm of accumulation. Conditions will improve early Tuesday as the system moves out over Northern Ontario.