Your forecast
Increasing cloudiness early this morning, with wind becoming southeast at 20 km/h early this afternoon. High 16 C, UV index 4 or moderate.
Mother Nature gifted Winnipeg a warm, sun-filled weekend, but Manitoba’s capital might not be rid of Old Man Winter just yet.
Eric Dykes, a senior meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said the city enjoyed unseasonably high temperatures this weekend. It reached 19 C Saturday and peaked at around 16 C Sunday.
Dual weather systems — one sweeping down from Alaska and the other a Colorado low — are expected to bring colder temperatures and increasing cloudiness Monday night into Tuesday, Dykes warned.
On Tuesday, southern Manitoba is forecast to get around 25 mm of rain and thunderstorms are even possible. On Wednesday, that rain is expected to turn to an undetermined amount of wet snow. Katrina Clarke and Tyler Searle have more here.
Tim Brandt, Di Harms, and Les Brandt enjoy the spring weather with some Scrabble on a Corydon Avenue patio. (John Woods / Free Press)
What’s happening today
In a singular moment for U.S. history, the hush money trial of former president Donald Trump begins in New York today with jury selection.
It’s the first criminal trial of a former commander in chief and the first of Trump’s four indictments to go to trial. Because Trump is the presumptive nominee for this year’s Republican ticket, the trial will also produce the head-spinning split-screen of a presidential candidate spending his days in court and, he has said, “campaigning during the night.” The Associated Press reports.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump leaves Manhattan criminal court in February. (Mary Altaffer / The Associated Press files)
Today’s must-read
Swerving isn’t working: Manitoba drivers are on pace to break the record for most pothole insurance claims this year.
Manitoba Public Insurance received 971 pothole-related damage claims in March, bringing the total of claims from the first three months of the year to 1,466. That’s more than double the 701 claims during that time in 2022.
Winnipeg’s pothole season got off to an early start this year thanks to the freeze-thaw cycle during the unusually mild winter. Kevin Rollason has the story.
Drivers avoid the long line of potholes at the corner of Broadway and Memorial Blvd Friday afternoon. (Mike Sudoma / Free Press)
On the bright side
Only 18 months ago, Rana Ahmed was leaving her home in Egypt to study at the University of Manitoba. This week, she’s receiving recognition for her volunteer work.
Ahmed is one of the people being celebrated at the 40th annual Volunteer Awards Thursday at Club Regent Event Centre.
This year’s awards will recognize more than two dozen outstanding volunteers from across the province. Aaron Epp has the story.
Rana Ahmed (Supplied)
On this date
On April 15, 1938: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Toronto, the Oshawa Generals defeated the St. Boniface Seals, giving them a one-game lead in the best-of-five series for the Dominion Junior Hockey championship. in Washington, D.C., U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt promoted his anti-Depression spending and lending program, saying that government action had become imperative. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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