Power has been restored in Holiday Park, Greystone Heights, Brevoort Park, King George Riversdale, and Nutana Park. In addition to power outages from the storm, you’ll see streets littered with broken branches and overturned garbage carts.
Highways closed as of 9 a.m.
HIGHWAY #1:
Manitoba Border to Whitewood: CLOSED
Whitewood to Indian Head: CLOSED
Indian Head to Regina: CLOSED
Regina to Moose Jaw: CLOSED
Swift Current to Carmichael: CLOSED
Grenfell: CLOSED
Moosomin: CLOSED
Moose Jaw: Hwy 1 E-CLOSED.
Regina: CLOSED
Regina BYPASS: CLOSED
Lumsden: Hwy 345, 320 & 322= CLOSED
Findlater: CLOSED
Qu’appelle: Hwy 1 Balgonie – Sintaluta CLOSED
Moose Jaw: Hwy 1 Moose Jaw – Belle Plain CLOSED
Southey: Hwy 6 Regina – Piapot Grid CLOSED
Qu’Appelle: HWY 1- CLOSED
Hwy 1 Gull Lake – Swift Current, Rush Lake – Mortlach: CLOSED
Swift Current: Hwy 4N- CLOSED
Humboldt Wadena, Wynyard, Foam Lake and Lanigan are under a winter storm warning. The rest of the eastern side of the province, as far north as Hudson Bay down through Estevan and Weyburn including the city of Regina, are still under a blizzard warning this morning.
All warnings and watches have been lifted elsewhere which includes Saskatoon – also one of the communities which recorded, at 102, peak wind gusts over 100 kilometres an hour. As well, preceding the storm, Saskatoon saw a record high of 6.4 degrees on Wednesday breaking the 1942 record of 6.1 degrees for January 13th.
Communities with peak wind gusts over 100 km/h:
Saskatoon Airport 102
Regina University 126
Regina Airport 115 (sensor went off line during the peak of the
storm)
Bratts Lake 143
Yellowgrass 133
Elbow 122
Mankota 120
Estevan 120 (sensor went off line during the peak of the storm)
Moose Jaw 119 (sensor went off line during the peak of the storm)
Eastend Cypress 111
Swift Current 109
Rockglen 106 (sensor went off line during the peak of the storm.
Rosetown 104
Maple Creek 104
Weyburn 102 (sensor went off line during the peak of the storm)
Leader 100