However, Paola said Winnipeg doesn’t have to look back very far to see snowstorms that are comparable to the latest one.

But it pales in comparison to the record-setting storm of March 4, 1966, where the city was hit with 38 cm of snow and hammered by 112 km-h winds.

With blanket weather warnings through the weekend, and the impact of road and school closures, this storm may seem like a big deal. “It’s the biggest snowstorm of the winter,” retired Environment Canada meteorologist Rob Paola said.

MIKAELA MACKENZIE / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSĪaron Challis walks his dog, Beasley, in the middle of the road to avoid deep snow in Winnipeg on Monday. Than means Winnipeg has had more snowfall in the past 24 hours than all of January and February combined. Snow slowed everything to a crawl throughout southern Manitoba Monday.Ī storm overnight and into the day Monday dropped 20 centimetres of snow on Winnipeg, and another two to four centimetres could yet fall before it’s all over. This article was published (1943 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. Free Press 101: How we practise journalism.

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