After snow dump, most of southern Manitoba braces for extreme cold

Most of southern Manitoba is stilldigging out from a dump ofsnow that fell Monday, withmost areas set to receiveablast of cold, Arctic air.

Early this morning, Environment Canada issued an extreme cold warning for western parts of the province including Brandon, Killarney, Neepawa, Dauphin, Swan Riverand communities in between.

Winnipeg, Portage la Prairie, Steinbach, Winkler, Selkirk, Beausejour, Arborg and other nearby communities have since been added to the warning.

The weather agency says "a bitterly cold Arctic air mass" is resulting in wind chill valuesin the range of40 to 45 in areas of western Manitobathis morning, with the wind chill expected to drop to around 40 overnight in areas to the east.

The extreme wind chill values are expected to return tonight in parts of western Manitoba, butlast until the end of the year across the province's southerly regions, the agency says.