Saskatchewan Tornado Watch / Saskatchewan Blizzard Watch

Good evening Saskatchewan! As we said a few days ago, we've been working on a few new forecasts and features for the winter season. With the impending storm that will bring blizzard-like conditions to Central Saskatchewan and prolonged freezing rain to Southeastern Saskatchewan, we thought this would be a good time to introduce our... Power Outage Forecast! If you missed our regular detailed forecast for this event, you can find it here: https://instantweatherinc.com//record...-breaking-blizzard-ta We know it can be hard to decipher the potential impacts from the traditional freezing rain accretion map and it also depends on many other variables. So we've done the hard work here and have created an easy-to-understand categorical forecast for power outages. If you find this type of forecast helpful then please let us know in the comments and also include any feedback you may have. We plan on issuing these with every potentially impactful freezing rain event for Southern Saskatchewan over the winter. And now onto the actual forecast: A system bringing blizzard conditions to parts of Central Saskatchewan will also bring the potential for many hours of freezing rain to the southeastern corner of the province. The hardest-hit area appears to be just to the east of Regina including Weyburn, Estevan and Yorkton where up to 6-12mm of freezing rain accretion is possible. The heaviest freezing rain is expected to occur between Sunday early morning and into the evening. This combined with strong wind gusts will likely bring down trees and power lines causing many power outages in the area. Regina is a little tricky to forecast depending on the track of the system. It initially looked like they would see mainly snow mixed with ice pellets at times with total accumulation between 20-30cm. Now, the latest models have started to put some of the freezing rain into the Regina area during the afternoon on Sunday. It very well could remain just ice pellets but power outages can't be ruled out. Stay safe everyone! - Brennen P.

Date: Saturday, November 7, 2020 At 4:00 p.m. a large area of snow has encompassed parts of southern and central Saskatchewan. This heavy band of snow is headed in a NE direction. If it is safe to do so, please let us know what you are experiencing in your area. #SKStorm #SKwx #SKsnow -Christopher

6:57 AM - Sat, Nov 7, 2020: Check out what our free app Instant Weather is calling for in #Saskatoon. Are you ready? ... Be safe folks! - Adam P.S. To download free, visit https://InstantWeatherInc.com/app-instruction and choose Apple or Android.

Valid: Saturday, Nov. 7th - Monday, Nov. 9th Record-Breaking Blizzard Takes Aim at Saskatchewan This Weekend; Up to 50cm of Snow Possible by Monday https://instantweatherinc.com//record-breaking-blizzard-ta... - Brennen P.

Hi everyone! How are you doing this evening? You might remember us mentioning the potential for a major winter storm that could affect Saskatchewan this weekend. At the moment, models have shifted towards a later track starting Sunday into early next week.... The current data suggest that the winter storm threat is still very real throughout Saskatchewan particularly the Southern and Central regions. We might even have to start talking about the B-word (blizzard) with significant snow totals but it’s hard to say. Could also see some prolonged freezing rain in the southeast corner of the province. Models are still shifting around and given the shift towards early next week we’re going to give it a few more models run to confirm this track. Our aim is to get a more detailed forecast out tomorrow or Friday at the latest. We don’t like chasing each model run so we’ll wait until we have good confidence in this event before forecasting it. No one needs more stress during these times! :) More details soon! - Brennen P.