Snowstorm to add to flood worries
By: Staff Writer
Posted: 03/22/2011 1:00 AM
IT looks as if Winnipeg is going to be spared in the first snowstorm of the spring, but the watershed won't be so lucky.
Environment Canada is calling for two to four centimetres of snow in Winnipeg today, with a similar amount to follow tonight.
That's a far cry from the walloping that towns along the U.S. border are going to get, according to Greg Pearce, forecaster technologist with Environment Canada.
Pilot Mound, for example, is expected to be blanketed with 15 to 25 cm of snow today with another 10 to 15 cm to come overnight. "There's a sharp dividing line between really heavy snow and next to nothing," he said.
The snowfall expected for southeastern Saskatchewan, southwestern Manitoba as well as North Dakota and Minnesota will only make the already-saturated ground around the Red and Assiniboine rivers even wetter.
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