How the Highways are looking around the Battlefords as of 11 a.m. Sunday. (Highway Hotline/submitted)

By battlefordsNOW Staff

Slick roads

Highway 16 reopened near North Battleford as travel not recommended around Central Sask.

Dec 8, 2024 | 1:13 PM

Highway 16 west of the Battlefords has reopened following a single vehicle crash on Sunday afternoon.

RCMP said a semi rolled over between Delmas and North Battleford, which closed the eastbound lanes. Thankfully, no injuries were reported, and police are reminding travellers to drive with care.

Highway 16 is one of many roads leading into, or around, the Battlefords that are listed as travel not recommended, according to the Saskatchewan’s Highway Hotline.

The same could be said for many areas in Central Saskatchewan where icy and slushy conditions were accompanied by periods of heavy snow creating reduced visibility, with loose and drifting snow also adding to hazards for motorists.

According to online highway updates on Facebook, motorists have posted that plows and highway crews were out in full force getting the highway back to driveable conditions.

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Brad Fauci, lead forecaster at Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), said in an interview on Sunday morning that the strong low pressure system is tracking across southern Saskatchewan.

Overnight, a mix of rain and freezing rain has moved through, and now we’re starting to see things change over to snow across central Saskatchewan, and that snow will intensify through the morning and spread eastwards.

The messy weather system has delivered a number of freezing rain and winter storm alerts, with ECCC saying in a Sunday morning advisory that the wintery mix would deliver snowfall amounts of 10 to 20 cm falling at as much as 2 cm per hours along with winds gusting up to 60 km/h.

“Some snow will fall overnight and into tomorrow, but for much of the rest of the province outside of that warning area, (you are) probably looking at more like five to 10 centimeters by the time everything is done but even that’s a little uncertain,” Fauci said.

He added that people in the province should enjoy the mild weather today as a “pretty potent Arctic high” would be slumping into the prairies by mid week, and the province could potentially see extreme cold warnings, with wind chills in the minus 35 to minus 40 range by Thursday night.

“It’s going to be a rude awakening to winter in the next couple days.”

– with files from CKOM News

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