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It was a wet commute on Tuesday morning around southern Manitoba. The precipitation is not expected to stop.
"Rain moved into the Winnipeg area from the south, around 5 a.m. this morning," says Dan Fulton, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. "We can expect that to continue throughout the day with the temperature staying near where it is around plus three."
Fulton says tonight, that the rain is expected to change into snow. "As this system continues to develop and pull colder air from the west, we can expect that rain to change to snow."
Along with the precipitation, he says strong winds are expected. "Fairly strong north-west winds tomorrow, we're looking at winds at 40 km/h gusting to 60 and the temperature around zero. Probably not too much accumulation for Winnipeg. More will fall but quite a bit we expect will melt."
While Fulton says he doesn't expect it to accumulate too much in Winnipeg, other areas of Manitoba are expected to be hit harder. "The most snow is going to be in western Manitoba. Portage Morden area, that area should see the rain change to snow a bit earlier and they will probably end up with 10-15 cm accumulation."
Meanwhile, to the east, Fulton says it will likely stay as rain. "Especially to the northeast as the warm air wraps around in that area. In the Parklands, they're looking at a significant accumulation of snow accompanied by strong north-west winds."