Tight grip of extreme cold not letting up in Manitoba, with another day of warnings
Wind chills of –45 to –50 continue in northern Manitoba, –35 to –40 in southern areas
Environment Canada has issued extreme cold warnings across much of Manitoba, so what else is new?
Mother Nature's frigid grip is firmly clenched across the province, from the Nunavut border to the U.S., save for a couple of gaps in the centre and southeast.
Wind chills of –45 to –50 continue in northern Manitoba, while southern Manitoba is slightly warmer with wind chills of –35 to –40.
Those values may moderate slightly through Friday but are expected to drop back to extreme levels overnight and remain there throughout the weekend, the weather agency says.
Winnipeg is just outside the alert area and balmy, by comparison, with a wind chill on Friday around –29. Just to the west, in Brandon and Portage la Prairie, the wind chill is –35.
Temperatures in the capital city are forecast to be around –20 C to –23 C over the next five days with overnight lows falling between –25 C and –31 C.
Normal temperatures for this time of year are a daytime high of –8 C and low of –18 C.