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Storms move out, cold slides back into southern Manitoba

People in southern Manitoba who still need to dig out from Monday's storm will want to layer up.

Northern half of province remains under extreme cold warning

Following Thursday's snowfall, temperatures will plummet for Friday and Saturday across the Province. (Lyzaville Sale/CBC)

People in southern Manitoba who still need to digout from Monday's storm will want to layer up.

The cold is back, bringing daytime temperatures of20 C to25 C with frigid wind chill values of28 to38 over the next few days.

It's not as frigid as last week, when temperatures hovered around 30 C with wind chill values of 40 to 55, butafter a relatively mild weekend, the cold hits like a slap particularly when you consider the normalhigh for this time of year is 10 C.

Oh, and the snow isn't quite done.

On top of the10-25 centimetres that fell in southern Manitoba on Monday, another five centimetres is expected Tuesday, Environment Canada forecast.

Winnipeg received 12-18 centimetres of snow from Monday's storm, while other parts of the province saw up to 25 cm. (Darren Bernhardt/CBC)

Meanwhile,Manitoba's north is expected to see clear skies throughout this week. However, that comes with a continuing extreme cold warning.

Light windscombined with temperatures of30 C to35 Care creatingwind chills of 45 or colder in the north on Tuesday.

There is a high risk offrostbite at that level of cold, with exposed skin freezing infive to 10 minutes.

The normal daytime temperature for this time of year in Winnipeg is 10 C. The forecast calls for temperatures about twice that cold for the next few days. (Darren Bernhardt/CBC)