A wintry weather system that was supposed to pass through the southeast corner of Manitoba on Wednesday&nbsp;decided to linger for a little longer, dropping as much as 20 cm of snow in parts of the province.

Environment Canada&nbsp;said the low pressure system originated in the American Midwest and tracked over southeastern Manitoba&nbsp;before stalling&nbsp;over Lake Superior and&nbsp;much of northwestern Ontario, Thursday.

Winter blasts into southeastern Manitoba with dump of snow

The snow is already falling in southeastern Manitoba and much more is expected.

'What's with all this snow? Someone told me it's the first day of Spring!' said the Yukon squirrel. She did not seem phased one bit by the fresh snow received on the change of seasons. Thanks to Tony Gonda for the photo (and squirrel translation).

Tony Gonda

People, and creatures, living in southeastern Manitoba will be getting a real taste of winter on Wednesday.

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A combine sits in a swathed field near Onanole, Man., over the weekend. Recent snow and cold weather has ground harvest to a halt in parts of southern Manitoba.

Onanole combine

Since the western edge of it reached into Manitoba&nbsp;Wednesday morning, the system&nbsp;dropped 10-20 centimetres of snow in the area and another two to four centimetres was expected to fall before it tapered off Thursday morning.

Snow is seen piled up on golf carts at Falcon Lake Golf Course Thursday.

Falcon Lake golf course 

Environment Canada said St.&nbsp;Labre, Man. saw the most snowfall, with an&nbsp;estimated 20 cm of the white stuff accumulating Wednesday and through the overnight.

Here's snowfall total amounts from Environment Canada:

A Purolator trailer sits in the ditch between the east and west lanes of the Trans-Canada Highway near Dufresne, Man., on Thursday morning. 

Semi-trailer in ditch

The conditions&nbsp;made highways east of Winnipeg extremely slippery, with several reports of vehicles and semi-trailers in ditches Thursday morning.

A tow truck works to pull a jackknifed semi-trailer truck out of the ditch near Deacon's Corner on the Trans-Canada Highway east of Winnipeg on Thursday morning.

Snow won't go: Winter weather system stalls over southeastern Manitoba

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