Snow closes highways in southern Manitoba; extreme cold warnings in north

Blowing snow advisories prompted the closures of three highways in southern Manitoba on Wednesday evening.

Closed due to poor winter driving conditions:

• Highway 14, from Highway 30 to Highway 3.
• Highway 3, from Mordento Carman
• Highway 13, from Carmanto Highway 2.
• Highway 75, fromWinnipeg to Emerson.

While highways in northernManitoba remain open,drivers are advised to be careful because several are snow-covered,Manitoba 511 showed Wednesday evening.

• Province of Manitoba: Highway conditions

In addition, Environment Canada issued blowing snow advisories for southern Manitoba, and extreme cold warnings in the north.

• Environment Canada: Weather alerts for Manitoba

Blowing snow advisories are in place for:

• Killarney - Pilot Mound - Manitou.
• Morden - Winkler - Altona - Morris.
• Sprague - Northwest Angle Provincial Forest.
• Steinbach - St. Adolphe - Emerson - Vita - Richer.

Extreme cold warnings are in place for:

• Brochet.
• Churchill.
• Gillam.
• Lynn Lake - Leaf Rapids - Pukatawagan.
• Shamattawa.
• Tadoule Lake.
• Thompson - Nelson House - Split Lake.
• York.

CBCmeteorologist John Sauder warned that cold is coming for much of theprovince, with an overnight temperature of 26 C and windy conditions over Wednesday night in Winnipeg.

After low wind chills on Thursday, the high on Friday and Saturday for Winnipegis only 29 C.