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Update March 14th at 7:24 p.m. - Environment Canada has ended all Blowing Snow Advisories across Southern Manitoba. The wind is expected to diminish throughout the Tuesday evening hours, becoming light late tonight and overnight to Wednesday morning.

Highways throughout the region are reported partly ice or ice covered Tuesday evening, as the blowing snow melted, became slush and has frozen on roadways throughout the area.

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Updated Saturday, March 11th at 7:40 p.m. - A number of highways have been closed in the Pembina Valley Saturday night:

Highway 3 from the junction of Highway 34 south of Crystal City to Sperling

Highway 13 from Carman to Oakville

Highway 14 from Rosenfeld to the jct of Highway 3 between Morden and Winkler

Highway 23 from Morris to Swan Lake

Highway 31 from the U.S. border to Highway 3

Highway 32 from the U.S. border to Winkler

Highway 34 from the jct of Highway 3 to Holland

PR 201 from the jct of 306 to Highway 32

Any signs Spring was just around the corner will be more than likely be buried underneath a significant layer of snow by the end of the weekend. For some areas, Saturday's dump will be the biggest of the season, with all of Southern Manitoba expecting at least some snowfall. That is from CMOS Accredited Weathercaster Chris Sumner.

Updated Friday, March 10th at 4:40 p.m. - Environment Canada extended Snowfall Warnings to include all of Southern Manitoba from the Manitoba to Ontario border.

Please read on for our original story published earlier today.

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It appears all of the hard work Mother Nature did last week, giving us the first signs Spring was just around the corner, will be undone by the time the weekend ends. The melting temperatures and brown patches of lawn will more than likely be a distant memory by the time Monday rolls around with confidence growing in a potentially significant snowfall event Saturday and Sunday.

It appears all of the hard work Mother Nature did last week, giving us the first signs Spring was just around the corner, will be undone by the time the weekend ends. The melting temperatures and brown patches of lawn will more than likely be a distant memory by the time Monday rolls around with confidence growing in a potentially significant snowfall event Saturday and Sunday.

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The Manitoba Hydrologic Forecast Centre reports low to moderate risk of flooding in most Manitoba basins in its February spring flood outlook released Tuesday afternoon. Spring flood risk is largely dependent on weather conditions from now until the spring melt.

A 16-year-old female died in a two-vehicle collision near Mariapolis Friday afternoon.

Pembina Valley RCMP responded to the scene on Highway 23 around 3:25 p.m., near the intersection of Road 26N, approximately two kilometers north of town.

The investigation has determined a vehicle with four female occupants was heading northbound on Highway 23 when it encountered an ice-covered section and lost control. 

The vehicle then collided head-on with a southbound SUV with one occupant, a 69-year-old male from Baldur.