Snow closes highways in southern Manitoba; extreme cold warnings in north
Dangerous driving conditions in Carman, Morden areas Wednesday evening
Blowing snow advisories prompted the closures of three highways in southern Manitoba on Wednesday evening.
Closed due to poor winter driving conditions:
- Highway 14, from Highway 30 to Highway 3.
- Highway 3, from Mordento Carman
- Highway 13, from Carmanto Highway 2.
- Highway 75, fromWinnipeg to Emerson.
While highways in northernManitoba remain open,drivers are advised to be careful because several are snow-covered,Manitoba 511 showed Wednesday evening.
In addition, Environment Canada issued blowing snow advisories for southern Manitoba, and extreme cold warnings in the north.
Blowing snow advisories are in place for:
- Killarney - Pilot Mound - Manitou.
- Morden - Winkler - Altona - Morris.
- Sprague - Northwest Angle Provincial Forest.
- Steinbach - St. Adolphe - Emerson - Vita - Richer.
Extreme cold warnings are in place for:
- Brochet.
- Churchill.
- Gillam.
- Lynn Lake - Leaf Rapids - Pukatawagan.
- Shamattawa.
- Tadoule Lake.
- Thompson - Nelson House - Split Lake.
- York.
CBCmeteorologist John Sauder warned that cold is coming for much of theprovince, with an overnight temperature of 26 C and windy conditions over Wednesday night in Winnipeg.
After low wind chills on Thursday, the high on Friday and Saturday for Winnipegis only 29 C.