Another weather record has fallen in southern Manitoba. In a season that has seen temperature records broken, Meteorologist Scott Kehler with Weatherlogics says our area has now gone the longest period without snow.
Kehler says it last snowed in April, and because we have yet to see a snowflake this fall, that means the last snowfall was 210 days ago.
"Which is a record by far," says Kehler.
This breaks the previous record of 201 days set in 1998. Kehler says this is very unusual because normally October will see about five centimetres of snow. He adds we also usually see some snow in the first half of November.
According to Kehler, the streak might soon end. Weather models are showing snow to fall on parts of Southwest Manitoba on Saturday.
The day will start with rain then change to snow in the afternoon with about 2 cm expected, and the temperature falling to zero in the afternoon.
Snowfall is expected to back off after midnight then cloudy, with 2 to 4 cm having fallen. The low will dip to minus 5 with an overnight wind chill minus 9.