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A pickup truck driving through a flash flood that Prince Albert saw in August of 2025. (Image Credit: Logan Lehmann/paNOW Staff)
More snow expected this week

Snowy, rainy weather will continue in Saskatchewan

Apr 22, 2026 | 8:00 AM

According to Environment Canada, one more dump of snow is on the way for Saskatchewan.  

The forecast across the majority of the province is showing precipitation starting sometime Wednesday and continuing on through the rest of the weekend. According to Environment Canada Meteorologist Terri Lang, the system is expected to bring rain to begin with, but as it heads further northeast, that rain is expected to turn into snow. 

“This one’s a little bit different than the last one. Initially it will have more rain with it because it’s getting to be quite a warm system, so many of the places are going to start out as rain and then transition to snow eventually. Amounts will vary quite a bit in this particular storm system. It looks like the farther north and east you are, the more snow you’re going to get,” Lang said.

Most of the weather that comes into Saskatchewan comes from the northwest, starting in the Rocky Mountains and making its way across Alberta and the rest of the Prairies. This pattern however is coming up from Montana, and even then, it’s still behaving a little different from what the prediction models are saying it should do. 

“Most Montana lows form in Montana, they take an easterly direction and end up in northwestern Ontario. This one is starting in Montana, but then taking a bit of a left-hand turn and curling up through Manitoba. So that’s why we’re going to see the snow lingering for a few days. Often these things are, you know ‘here’s your snow’, then they leave. This one, because it’s sort of backing up and swirling around, it’s going to be around for a couple extra days,” Lang said.

Estimates for snowfall amounts around the Prairies vary, and because of the rain that’s expected to fall to start the system the numbers could be deceiving anyway. A few communities for example show an expected 10 to 12 cm of snow around the Battlefords, 15 cm around Melfort and Meadow Lake, Prince Albert closer to 20 cm, and La Ronge up to 30 cm.  

(Those same measurements work out to about four inches of snow around the Battlefords, six inches around Melfort and Meadow Lake, eight inches around Prince Albert, and almost a full foot of snow around La Ronge.) 

Because of the warmer ground right now, a lot of the snow that falls is not going to accumulate and is instead going to melt into the ground quickly. As a result, homes at risk of flooding should be getting the snow away from their house as much as they can in the next few days. 

“Just because the snow is what we call ‘ripe’, which means it’s old, it’s full of holes, so it’ll melt really, really quickly, and then you put some rain on top of that, then the rain doesn’t have anywhere to go, right? So it’s a bit of a concern with this particular system,” Lang said.

Winds as high as 60 km/h are also expected to come along with this system, with the worst day for it expected to be on Thursday. The forecast shows rain beginning rain starting as early as Tuesday night in the Battlefords, and snow as early as Wednesday night in many places around the province.

Nick.Nielsen@pattisonmedia.com