Southern Manitoba's drawn-out autumn, with its unseasonably warm temperatures, has hit an abrupt end. Light snow is expected to move into western Manitoba on Tuesday morning and then sweep through southern Manitoba by Wednesday afternoon, bringing a swath of 5-10 centimetres of wet snow, according to an Environment Canada special weather statement (new window). Another shot of 5-10 cm is forecasted to fall Thursday night into Friday, possibly leaving some regions with total accumulations of 10-20 cm by the weekend. In Winnipeg, the forecast calls for 6 C on Tuesday and –2 C by the weekend. Those numbers are a far cry from how October started, with temperatures in the mid-20s.
