Conditions improving on Saskatchewan highways

Most of the advisories on Saskatchewan highways were removed Wednesday afternoon.

The Highway Hotline said travel wasn’t recommended on just two stretches of highway: Highway 349 Naicam to the junction with Highway 35; and Highway 368 north of Highway 5.

The Highway Hotline map can be found here.

Earlier Wednesday, Sean Stewart found himself driving a lot slower than usual on Highway 6 near Melfort.

“Visibility and everything else was good, but the road conditions themselves were not,” he said. “It was ice-covered with blowing snow.

“People are going to have to really slow down and give themselves some time.”

Meteorologist Keane Kokolsky with Environment Canada says parts of northern, central and southern Saskatchewan saw up to 10 centimetres of snow on Tuesday, with light flurries expected to continue throughout the day on Wednesday until the Alberta Clippers heads further east.

“There has been a lot of acts of winter, unfortunately,” he said. “But, like I have said, winter is not quite done with us yet.”

Despite this Clipper moving in, Environment Canada is keeping its focus on the weekend as another massive system is looming in the distance.

A “significant” Colorado low is expected to hit parts of Manitoba and southeast Saskatchewan, according to Kokolsky. He says it’s too early to know what exactly it will look like but he anticipates there being a lot of precipitation along with the possibility of strong winds.