There are an average of five collisions a year between vehicles on the road and snow plows in Saskatchewan and the Minister of Highways and Infrastructure says their goal is to bring that to zero. At the event to highlight snow plow safety, snow plow operator Wendy Koslowski explained she was driving a plow in […]
Saskatchewan farmers made limited harvest progress this past week. Provincial crops analyst Cory Jacob says a few combines were running this week, but harvest is stalled around the 91 percent complete mark, up maybe one percent from a week ago. He says recent snow has put a halt to most harvest work. He says some […]
Environment Canada won’t come right out and say the snow we have received is here to stay, but the days of seeing the ground white with snow could be with us for a while now While temperatures will crawl above zero later this week, there will also be more snow which adds to around the […]
Many parts of Saskatchewan are getting the first significant taste of winter, and SGI is asking people to adjust their driving habits to meet conditions. SGI’s Tyler McMurchy says it always takes time for drivers to get accustomed to snowy roads. “One of the things that everyone needs to keep in mind is the traction […]
The weather has changed quite a bit throughout the weekend in Saskatchewan. Residents experienced temperatures in the double digits during the day on Friday with plenty of sunshine. Strong wind gusts reaching 80 km/h from the west began Friday night and moved into Saturday. And while the winds reduced bit, that’s when the snow arrived. […]
The latest crop report says there was limited harvest progress across Saskatchewan this past week. Provincial crops analyst Shannon Friesen says 69 percent of the crop is in the bin, up from 55 percent last week but well behind the average of 88 percent for this date. She says most of the progress was […]
Electricity is returning for many Winnipeg customers affected by an intense winter storm, but Manitoba Hydro says it can’t even estimate how long it will be before power is restored to thousands of people as the weather system moves north and west. By late Saturday morning, the utility said nearly 53,000 customers, including 7,000 in […]
Turkey, stuffing and shovelling. That is what people in the southeast corner of Saskatchewan could be doing this weekend as a snowfall warning for areas including Carlyle, Stoughton, Moosomin and Grenfell has been issued by Environment Canada. The weather office says 10 to 15 centimeters of snow will move into the southeastern corner of Saskatchewan late […]
This week’s snowfall across much of the southern Saskatchewan grainbelt has put harvest on hold again. Regina has a covering of snow. The weather office says no snow in Saskatoon, 3 centimeters in Yorkton and 5 centimeters in Weyburn and Assiniboia. SaskWheat vice chair Scott Hepworth says the ground is white with snow around Assiniboia, […]
We all know the weather in Saskatchewan in October can be up and down, and we are going to see another example of that come Tuesday night. After a day on Monday where the temperature was close to 20 degrees in Regina, it will be barely above freezing Wednesday and Thursday as more snow is […]
