First taste of winter coming to southern Manitoba

It was nice while it lasted.

Southern Manitoba's drawn-out autumn, with its unseasonably warm temperatures, has hit an abrupt end.

Light snow is expected to move into western Manitoba on Tuesday morning and then sweepthrough southern Manitoba by Wednesday afternoon, bringinga swath of 5-10 centimetres of wet snow, according to an Environment Canada special weather statement.

Another shot of 5-10 cm is forecasted to fall Thursday night into Friday, possibly leaving some regions with total accumulations of 10-20 cm by the weekend.

The snow will also usher in much colder temperatures by the weekend with daytime highs struggling to reach the freezing mark and overnight lows approaching 10 C, the weather agency said.

In Winnipeg, the forecast calls for 6 C on Tuesday and2 C by the weekend.

Those numbers are a far cry from how October started, with temperatures in the mid-20s. Even the ending to last week sawhighs of 18 C.

Normal temperatures for this time of year are a high of 7 C and overnight low of3 C.

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