March snow leaves roads a mess
Winter came roaring back Monday night after a spell of spring-like weather.
Around 5 cm of wet snow had fallen on the Battlefords area by Tuesday morning, March 15, causing semis to get stuck at a couple of spots in the Battlefords.
Environment Canada meteorologist Rob Paola said it was a secondary low pressure system that caused it, separate from the main system that led to snowfall warnings in the Nipawin/Hudson Bay areas.
“As we go over western Saskatchewan there’s a secondary low pressure system just spinning around Saskatoon, and that’s giving an area of snow through the Battlefords-Prince Albert areas,” he said. By about 6 a.m. it was in the process of easing off and moving east.