Saskatoon declares 'snow event,' travel not recommended on some Sask. highways

Liam O'Connor · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 28, 2025 9:54 AM EDT | Last Updated: 9 minutes ago

Residents successful Saskatoon are waking up to a snowfall dump Friday morning.

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) issued snowfall warnings for the Battlefords and Saskatoon areas, aboriginal Friday morning.

The informing estimated snowfall full amounts to scope from 10 to 20 centimetres, and for snowfall to proceed for the morning.

ECCC besides advised the accumulated snowfall whitethorn marque question difficult, with visibility being reduced astatine times and roads being hard to navigate.

Highway 11 was concisely closed from Dundurn to Davidson, but arsenic of 7:15 a.m. CST, that informing was reduced, according to the Highway Hotline, which said question was not recommended.

Just extracurricular of Saskatoon, Highway 16 from Arpiers to Dafoe was closed, on with adjacent stretches of roadworthy connected Highway 20 to Humboldt. ECCC said the set of snowfall volition easiness done the morning, but temperatures won't get supra zero until adjacent week connected Tuesday oregon Wednesday.

The City of Saskatoon declared a "snow event" aft the dense snowfall, which it measured at 12 centimetres of full accumulation.

The metropolis said beardown winds are creating atrocious roadworthy conditions, and it sent 28 graders and six plows retired to wide precedence streets.