A strong weather system approaching Manitoba is expected to bring more snow to central and northern parts of the province on Tuesday, Environment Canada says.
A special weather statement issued early Sunday morning says that system is expected to bring somewhere between 10 and 25 centimetres of snow to the affected regions.
The snow is forecast to start Tuesday during the day and continue into the night.
It's also expected to fall especially hard in a line stretching from The Pas, near Manitoba's border with Saskatchewan, to Island lake near the province's Ontario border, the statement said.
In areas south of the snow, a band of freezing rain is likely. That's expected to cause slippery conditions, Environment Canada said.
More details about exactly which communities are expected to get more snow on Tuesday is available on the weather agency's website.
But Environment Canada meteorologist Robyn Dyck urged people to keep an eye on those alerts, since weather statements can later be upgraded to watches or warnings.
"That special weather statement is usually issued when we're quite a far ways ahead of the system, but that may be changing over to watches or warnings in the near future," Dyck said.
"We are in a bit of an active pattern, so we do have another system that's tracking through the southern Prairies, impacting southern Saskatchewan today and then into Manitoba tonight."
The upcoming weather system comes on the heels of an earlier one that saw parts of southern Manitoba walloped with snow on Saturday.
That includes Cypress River, Man., which got about 15 centimetres of snow — the most of anywhere in the province, Dyck said.
Other southern Manitoba communities also got quite a bit of snowfall, including Morris with 14 centimetres and Killarney with 13.
In comparison, Winnipeg only saw an average of about six centimetres on Saturday, though that amount varied across the city, Dyck said.
Meanwhile, other communities in central Manitoba saw a lot less snow.
That includes St-Pierre-Jolys, which saw about five centimetres; La Salle, which saw about four; and Matlock, which got three.
More snow coming for parts of central, northern Manitoba on Tuesday, says Environment Canada - CBC.ca
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