Blizzard warning!

City of Winnipeg
4:02 PM CST Sunday 24 January 2010
Blizzard warning for City of Winnipeg
changed from Winter storm warning

Blizzard developing tonight continuing on Monday.

A storm system giving snow to Northwestern Ontario will push into Southern Manitoba this evening. Conditions are expected to deteriorate sharply tonight in the Red River Valley..Including the City of Winnipeg..Parts of the Interlake..And areas between the escarpment and Lake Manitoba as snow from this system begins to accumulate and blow around in northwest winds which will strengthen to 50 gusting 70 km/h tonight. This will produce blizzard conditions in the above areas starting later tonight. The blizzard is expected to continue through much of the day Monday. Snowfall accumulations are not expected to be too significant with this storm..With anywhere from 2 to 5 cm of new snow in the Red River Valley increasing to 10 cm or so near the Ontario border..But the main problem will be due to poor visibility in open areas due to blowing snow.

Elsewhere, snow continues through west-Central Manitoba, where a winter storm warning remains in effect. Note that all of Southern Manitoba will see some blowing snow over the next 24 hours with this system..However the worst conditions will be experienced in areas under the blizzard warning.

This winter storm is quite large and is producing poor travelling conditions across the southern prairies and neighbouring states. These poor conditions will continue through Monday. Persons in or near the warning areas should be on the lookout for adverse weather conditions and travel only when necessary.

The storm will finally Peter out Monday evening as winds diminish and skies clear. Sunny skies are expected for the remainder of the week, although temperatures will be much colder that what we have become accustomed to with highs around minus 15 expected.

Good thing I stocked up on food and wine!

So with all this new snow on the ground, what would you all say is the total amount of snow on the ground?

Here, none...

Hasn't that warning been on this whole weekend?

Nope...the initial warning was a snowfall warning, they just changed it around 4:00 pm to a Blizzard warning.

Electrician wrote:Here, none...

Aren't you in Europe somewhere? I'm talking about Winnipeg. How much snow, in total, is there on the ground?

So, It's Monday morning. There is a continuing blizzard waning for Winnipeg and Manitoba.

Who will try to get into work? I'm leaving now. We'll see how it goes...

Well, I'm at work, been here since before 7:00 am, no problems with bus, etc, but it is windy, very windy. Its not all that cold, but with the wind being what it is, it doesn't take much.

Freeman wrote:Well, I'm at work, been here since before 7:00 am, no problems with bus, etc, but it is windy, very windy. Its not all that cold, but with the wind being what it is, it doesn't take much.

Ditto. I did shovel the driveway at home this morning, however.

Total on the ground? hmm... less then a foot since everything we got in the last couple of days was melting?

But yeah kids are dissapointed, they watched the movie snow day on YTV last night... then we were watching the closures this morning and it basically gets down to..

Everywhere outside Winnipeg is closed for school.
No school buses are running in the city (or at least WSD1), but the schools are all still open.

So.. if you walk to school.. no snow day for you!

heh... HAHA!!!

mind you their school is gonna be a little bit emptier today since its a french emmersion school and a number of them bus it to school.

Are we getting to be wimps? Just a little wind and no snow!
Is the snow coming later? I did not see any forcast, bur assume with all the female school bus drivers, that is the reason they cancelled bus service to so many outlying districts!

WSD1 cancelled their buses. Wimps for sure. We used to walk to school without shoes in worse conditions....uphill both ways too eh.

Yup, got in. If not for the wimpy drivers I would have made roughly the same time.

and thats the real problem when we get conditions like this in the peg. The drivers who drive like idiots.

From slamming on the gas when they get a light and createing ice patches everywhere to only doing 30Kmh because they are scared.

One has to wonder if things would get better if we had mandatory winter tires like Quebec does.

You think winter tires would make some folks better drivers??

DeanK , was that you behind me this morning?

Freeman wrote:You think winter tires would make some folks better drivers??

nope...but at least make their cars handle a little better and PERHAPS make them a little more confident so they stop driving like idiots.

JTF wrote:WSD1 cancelled their buses. Wimps for sure. We used to walk to school without shoes in worse conditions....uphill both ways too eh.

Just because the buses are cancelled doesn't mean the schools are closed. They are still open and students who are within walking distance are still expected to be there.

It is so eassy to criticise DeanK- wimpy drivers, etc. That is what just ruins this forum!
People being mean and making derogatory comments!
I have a feeling that those people should be banned!

holly is right. From what I recall, the concern is that the buses might be delayed or even prevented from completing their schedule in inclement weather and kids might have wait too long, so the divisions don't want to expose themselves the liability of some kid getting frozen waiting for a bus that never comes. I can see that moreso in rural areas (my kids were in Seven Oaks and they service West St Paul), but it comes up a little lame in urban areas. Its really not that cold out, just bloody windy.

rosencrentz wrote:It is so eassy to criticise DeanK

I agree, it is so easy to criticize DeanK, but he makes it easy for us.

holly golightly wrote:

JTF wrote:WSD1 cancelled their buses. Wimps for sure. We used to walk to school without shoes in worse conditions....uphill both ways too eh.

Just because the buses are cancelled doesn't mean the schools are closed. They are still open and students who are within walking distance are still expected to be there.

Our kids have the day off. That's one of the anomalys of St. Norbert. We're in a rural school division ( Seine River), so there is no such thing as buses cancelled, schools open. If the buses are cancelled, schools are closed. There are about 3-5 weather closures per year.

"my kids were in Seven Oaks and they service West St Paul), "

your kids service West St Paul?

just wow... that is not something most parents would brag about...........

as to schools closing. I have talked to some people and apparently the main reason behind not closing schools within winnipeg is the HUGE financial hit that would happen from thousands of parents having to call in to stay off from work