Snow won't go: Winter weather system stalls over southeastern Manitoba

A wintry weather system that was supposed to pass through the southeast corner of Manitoba on Wednesdaydecided to linger for a little longer, dropping as much as 20 cm of snow in parts of the province.

Environment Canadasaid the low pressure system originated in the American Midwest and tracked over southeastern Manitobabefore stallingover Lake Superior andmuch of northwestern Ontario, Thursday.

Since the western edge of it reached into ManitobaWednesday morning, the systemdropped 10-20 centimetres of snow in the area and another two to four centimetres was expected to fall before it tapered off Thursday morning.

Environment Canada said St.Labre, Man. saw the most snowfall, with anestimated 20 cm of the white stuff accumulating Wednesday and through the overnight.

Here's snowfall total amounts from Environment Canada:

• Sprague: 14 cm
• Pinawa: 14 cm
• Rennie: 13 cm
• Steinbach area: 5 to 10 cm
• Emerson: 5 to 10 cm
• Kleefeld: 8 cm
• Niverville: 7 cm
• St. Pierre Jolys: 6 cm
• Gretna: 5 cm
• Great Falls: 4 cm
• Morris: 3 cm
• Morden: 1 cm
• Winnipeg:trace amounts of snow

The conditionsmade highways east of Winnipeg extremely slippery, with several reports of vehicles and semi-trailers in ditches Thursday morning.