winter storm

We really can’t complain about the past winter we’ve had….yet we’re probably going to complain about the winter because we’re Canadian and we love talking about the weather. Despite complaining about winter temperatures, we love to brag about how cold it gets to others who come from (or live in) warm countries, even though they’ve […]

We can’t say we weren’t warned. Storm Warnings went up before the weekend, and the weather that came in brought a massive amount of snow that has made getting around very difficult. And now the temperature is about to take a dip. 620CKRM’s Precision Weather is calling for another 10 centimeters of snow Sunday Night, […]

Environment and Climate change Canada has upgraded the winter storm watch for Southern Saskatchewan to a winter storm warning.  They say a winter storm with heavy snowfall (25-35 cm) and gusty winds up to 70 km/h will be hitting the province from Saturday to Monday night. Blowing snow will reduce visibility, making travel hazardous. Stay […]

A sad ending to a search for a missing man came yesterday. 60 year old Jack Crouch was traveling along highway 15 earlier this week when a winter storm picked up and left him stranded between Watrous and Kenaston. Crouch was found dead after a civil air search and rescue plane assisted the RCMP. The […]

Saskatchewan residents got their first taste of winter this weekend as a storm blew over the southern portion of the province. Terri Lang, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said that the Swift Current and Moose Jaw areas were the hardest hit. “It looks like between Moose Jaw and Swift Current, that looks […]

SaskTel has released a public service announcement about some major service outages in several communities just west of Regina. Due to the power outages from the first winter storm, all of SaskTel’s services including internet, landline, and wireless have been completely wiped out in Caronport, Tuxford, and Briercrest. All landlines services are facing an outage […]

A severe storm event continues to leave more than 3000 SaskPower customers in the dark. SaskPower has been working round the clock to fix an unprecedented number of power lines after the lines were downed during a storm that impacted the southwest corner of the province. 3400 customers are still without power in the Maple […]

White Butte RCMP are advising people that Highway 1 is closed between Regina and Moose Jaw. Crews are on the scene of a collision and traffic backup in the eastbound lanes, about ten kilometres east of Pense. Both lanes of travel are blocked and traffic is backed up for kilometres. Police are reminding motorists to […]

According to Environment Canada, the worst of the potent Alberta Clipper system moving through, is over for Saskatchewan. Conditions are expected to gradually improve from west to east throughout the day Wednesday, with the strongest wind gusts and heaviest snowfall behind us. Kyle McAulay from the weather office, said conditions are already improving greatly in […]

The weather will not be ideal for a couple of days. Environment Canada has both a special weather statement and a fog advisory out for a large majority of the province The weather office says a strong storm system will affect the southern and central parts of the province starting Monday night. The area southwest […]