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A strong, moisture filled low pressure system currently centred over Saskatchewan is still on track to bring significant snowfall to much of Southern Manitoba Sunday morning through Monday afternoon.

Updated Saturday, December 7th at 3:55 p.m. -  Ahead of the arrival of a potent low pressure system that's currently travelling across the Southern Prairies, Environment Canada has issued weather warnings of various types across all of Southern Manitoba.

For the Pembina Valley and Red River Valley west of the river:

Winter Storm Warnings are now in effect for these areas including Pilot Mound, Manitou, Morden, Winkler, Altona, Gretna and Morris with 10 to 20cms of snowfall possible.

We are waking up to a snowy, blowy, sloppy and stormy winter mess Wednesday morning. Winter Storm Warnings remain in effect for the Pilot Mound and Manitou areas, with Special Weather Statements continuing for the Pembina and Red River Valleys.

It appears not only was Tuesday’s wet weather an unusual for this time of year, it also appears it may be a record setter in a number of locations.

The first widespread winter weather event of the season is now underway across Southern Manitoba, with Winter Storm Warnings and Special Weather Statements in effect for essentially the entire region.

Updated Monday, November 18th at 4:50 a.m. - Environment Canada has extended the Winter Storm Watch to now include the Morden, Winkler, Carman, Altona, Emerson and Morris regions. This is in addition to all of Western Manitoba, which remains under a Winter Storm Watch.

More often than not when we talk about precipitation in November, we're talking about flaky white stuff, rather than drippy wet stuff. With that said, Sunday and overnight into Monday morning brought a fairly significant amount of rainfall to the region.

The latest round of Fall rainfall arrived Friday morning in portions of the region.

An intense Alberta clipper crossing the province Saturday brought strong to severe wind gusts to much of Southern Manitoba. This was the second consecutive weekend these regions experienced winds between 70 and 90+ km/h

“It was a very similar scenario to what we had last Sunday through Monday,” explained CMOS Accredited Weathercaster Chris Sumner. “Strong southerly winds ahead of the lows arrival due to its counterclockwise rotation, then shifting westerly and northwesterly as it moved through and the cold front passed.”

An intense low pressure system moving through northern Manitoba brought two days of high winds across southern Manitoba Sunday and Monday. According to a summary from Environment Canada, strong southerly winds gusting 70 to 80 km/h on Sunday and Sunday night gave way to widespread severe westerly winds gusting to 90 km/h or more at times later Monday morning and afternoon. 

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