A good portion of the province will see a slight return to winter to begin the week.

Environment Canada Meteorologist, Jason Knight, says a clipper system coming in from Alberta will bring rain to Saskatoon Saturday night, around two to four centimeters of snow Sunday morning and perhaps a few more centimeters Sunday night.  “That’s not quite the end of it, the clipper system moves off to the East and then stalls over northwestern Ontario.  So we’re going to end up with a few days with waves of moisture coming out of the east moving back into the province.  We’ll see some steadier, lighter snow continuing for the Saskatoon area, right through possibly into Wednesday, certainly into Tuesday.”  Knight says Saskatoon will likely see around 10 centimeters in total, and likely 15 to 20 centimeters will fall in the Prince Albert Area.

Knight says the province will see quite a bit more snow further east with 25 to 30 centimeters expected getting closer to the Manitoba border.  According to Environment Canada the northeastern grain-belt areas are expected to be the hardest hit by this system, including the Melfort and Hudson Bay areas

Knights adds we’ll then get right back to spring, with temperatures above zero by Wednesday, and around plus nine by Friday in Saskatoon.  He says the snow should melt away, once again quite quickly.