Environment Canada says the first snowfall of the season is expected this weekend in Saskatchewan’s far south and then also in the southeast. A Special Weather Statement has been issued, which includes Shaunavon, Maple Creek and Val Marie and further north and east to Swift Current and diagonally further north and east to Hudson Bay and Porcupine Plain and all of the communities south of that through to the U.S. border.

It will begin Saturday morning in parts of southern Saskatchewan as rain but will progressively change to wet snow from west to east over the course of the weekend, with snow forecast for Saturday night in the southwest. Environment Canada says it’s difficult to forecast the amount of snow because it will melt and wet snow compacts…. but in general, somewhere between 2 to 10 cm by the end of Sunday, whith higher amounts through the far south central and Cypress Hills regions.