The snowstorm that blasted through southern Manitoba delivered significant amounts of snowfall and winds that gusted as high as 70 km/h, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada.
These photos below submitted by Manitoba Co-operator reporter Alexis Stockford and photo contributor Jeannette Greaves offer a chilly glimpse of how the storm looked as it ripped across rural Manitoba on Oct. 11, 2019. (video at bottom)
A wheat crop near Somerset struggles to stay upright as the southern Manitoba snowstorm gathers strength on Oct. 11.
photo:
Alexis Stockford
White-out conditions and poor visibility were reported across southern Manitoba on Oct. 11 as winds gusted between 30-70 km/h and whipped blowing snow high into the air.
photo:
Alexis Stockford
Strong winds and heavy snowfall saw snowdrifts accumulate fast in southern Manitoba on Oct. 11.
photo:
Alexis Stockford
A soybean crop yet to be harvested near Notre Dame fights wind gusts and wet, heavy snow on Oct. 11.
photo:
Jeannette Greaves
A house and farmyard are obscured by blowing snow as tree branches weighed down by heavy snow bend under the strain.
photo:
Jeannette Greaves
A dog surveys a very different farmyard than it remembers as snow drifts pile up and visibility is dramatically reduced in the snowstorm on Oct. 11.
photo:
Jeannette Greaves
(Video footage courtesy of Manitoba Co-operator reporter Alexis Stockford)
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