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Weird weather keeps city stuck in fog
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Drivers make their way through heavy fog on Main Street north of the Chief Peguis Trail before 7:30 a.m. this morning.
It’s a foggy Friday morning, the third straight day when southern Manitoba has woken to a serving a thick soup in the air, but it may not last for a fourth. Fog in the Altona area caused the Borderland School Division to cancel school buses and classes today.
Environment Canada put out what they call a special weather statement Thursday afternoon forecasting the gathering fog overnight and near-zero visibility for the Winnipeg area.
John Perrin caught this striking view of the legislative grounds shrouded in frost and fog mid-morning Friday from a balcony across the Assiniboine River. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
Just after midnight Friday, visibility at Richardson International Airport was down to about 200 metres.
The foggy conditions, which were often worse on the city’s surrounding highways, greeted early morning drivers today, with travellers on the Trans-Canada Highway between Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg reporting only being able to see a couple of car-lengths or less and at least one emergency responder on a rural side road reporting being lost in the fog.
A spokeswoman for Environment Canada says the fog is a result of a ridge of high pressure and light winds that produced moist air that has built up and hung over the area.
But the weather office is expecting conditions to change over the weekend, when stronger winds are forecast to blow in as a result of a low-pressure area from northern Hudson Bay.
Meanwhile, an even more persistent weather pattern will continue - unseasonably mild temperatures.
Today’s high will be -1 C, while Saturday is expected to be 1 C.
And by Super Bowl Sunday we should be basking in a super high of 4 C and clearly out of the "soup."
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Updated on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 8:54 AM CST: updated
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