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The southeast saw a good bit of precipitation come down yesterday as a system blasted overhead with both snow and rain coming down. For some areas of the southeast, like Estevan, they mostly felt the rain. However, areas further north got buried in what felt like winter-like conditions.
Environment and Climate Change Canada Meteorologist Justin Shelley talks about what the Estevan area received over the last day.
"It looks like for the Estevan area specifically, got about 14 or 15 millimetres of precipitation. There was a bit of a rain-snow mix in there, and it looks like about two centimetres of snow based on the auto sensor for that site there."
In comparison, Shelley says that more northern areas received a lot more snow over the day.
"Areas to the north were a lot harder hit by the system. The area up near Broadview got about 40 millimetres of precipitation, and the snow on ground sensor went up about 32 centimetres at that station. We also got a report of over 30 centimetres in Moose Valley, and we got a report of 37.8 centimetres in Esterhazy."
Shelley says that the hardest hit areas tended to congregate in the southeast corner, close by the Trans-Canada east of Regina.
Temperatures are expected to climb through the rest of the week, leading to most of that snow likely melting quickly.
Shelley does warn that we're likely to see a bit more precipitation this weekend, though the system is likely to fall as rain.
"We're tracking a potential Colorado low that's going to track across the high plains there starting on Sunday and into Monday. A lot of that precipitation looks like it's going to maybe just skirt out of the region, but there's going to be certainly a good chance of seeing some showers there Sunday night and through the day on Monday and even a chance of a thunderstorm with some instability associated with it."
Shelley recommends that people keep an eye on the sky as we head into the weekend.
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