Manitobans Get Dumped in First Snowfall of the Season

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The people of southern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario were force to dig their way out from the first winter storm that has brought heavy snow and freezing rain on Sunday.

Police alerted the drivers that road conditions are utterly dangerous all over the southern Manitoba and numerous highways have been closed in northwestern Ontario. The Trans-Canada Highway west of Winnipeg to Brandon was stopped for general traffic on Saturday night because of ice and even though it was re-opened on Sunday, the traffic was still being diverted at the Portage la Prairie bypass due to an overturned truck.

The spokesperson of the Manitoba Transportation, Neil Gobelle, declared that “right now we still have a lot of roads with snow cover or snow pack with a lot of visibility issues in the west.” He cautioned that people should “definitely drive with caution. Roads are still in no means perfect condition. As you get further west, you get more blowing snow.”

The moisture-laden weather system kept on tracking northern Ontario after leaving heavy snowfall across the prairies. A meteorologist, Meghan Yeo, explained that “the system is pushing through northern Ontario right now, but the back end of the storm is still in Manitoba, causing it to storm again today.” Yeo explained that “Winnipeg got 21 centimetres of snow yesterday, as did Brandon.” She recalled that the storm system is striking the Prairies for days from the time it first travelled through Alberta and Saskatchewan. She said “they also had a lot of snow.”