Manitoba weather: Extreme cold gripping province [Video]

Extreme cold continues to hold its grip on much of Manitoba and northwestern Ontario on Thursday.

In Winnipeg, the hourly temperature recorded at Environment and Climate Change Canada’s (ECCC) station at the airport at 6 a.m. was -32.4 C, the coldest hourly reading there in all of 2024, so far.

An arctic ridge of high pressure has weakened, but it will be our neighbours in Saskatchewan who will be the beneficiaries of more moderate conditions today.

Here in Manitoba, not so much. The tradeoff, though, is that the sun will shine again today on much of the province.

ECCC has continued its extreme cold warning today for Winnipeg, Brandon, and most of southern Manitoba and parts of northwestern Ontario.

Daytime highs will only reach the mid to upper minus 20s with wind chill values approaching -40. That will be followed by one more bitterly cold night. Overnight lows will drop …