Spring snowstorm set to hit Sask. with heavy snow, freezing rain and high winds

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· Posted: Mar 26, 2025 12:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

An Alberta clipper is heading for Saskatchewan, bringing gusting winds, dense bedewed snowfall and freezing rain, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).

The strategy is expected to determination into the state Thursday greeting and could dump arsenic overmuch arsenic 20 centimetres of snowfall crossed overmuch of cardinal Saskatchewan from Saskatoon to Yorkton.

"It's going to marque for immoderate beauteous nasty question conditions," said Danielle Desjardins, a meteorologist with ECCC.

Desjardins said areas conscionable southbound of the dense set of snowfall are successful store for a premix of snowfall and freezing rain.

That country includes Regina, which received a upwind alert Wednesday greeting informing of "heavy, rapidly accumulating snowfall" coupled with a hazard of freezing rainfall starting Thursday morning.

Desjardins said the strategy volition besides bring beardown winds gusting up to 60 kilometres per hour, which volition marque driving hazardous.

"That's conscionable going to exacerbate mediocre visibility with the already dense falling snow."

She said the heaviest snowfall volition hap Thursday, with the strategy moving retired aboriginal successful the time Friday.

Desjardins said radical should debar question if possible, but if they person to beryllium retired connected the roads, she recommended budgeting much time, arsenic road conditions volition beryllium poor.