Colleen Bready’s forecast: Cold snap still around for a little while longer

Colleen Bready has your current conditions and updated weather forecast for Feb. 18, 2025.

A stubborn cold snap continues to lock its grip on Manitoba on Tuesday.

Most of the south remains under an extreme cold warning issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), including Winnipeg, Brandon, and Dauphin.

The weather agency said southern regions experienced wind chill values of -40 to near -50 Tuesday morning in parts of the west.

At 8:00 a.m., the temperature at the airport in Brandon was a bone-chilling -37 C, while the wind chill felt like -51.

Meanwhile, in Winnipeg, the hourly temperature was -32 C between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m., with the coldest wind chill of -44 at 7:00 a.m.

Wind chill values could moderate slightly during the day, but ECCC said extreme wind chills are expected to return overnight and early morning.

If you’ve had enough of these bitterly cold conditions, relief is on the way – it will just take a few more days to get here.

Temperatures will be less cold on Wednesday and Thursday, in the mid-minus teens, but still well below the normal high of -7 C for this time of the year in Winnipeg.

The good news is that Thursday’s nighttime temperatures won’t drop much more than a couple of degrees from the daytime high of -13 C, before a sunny forecast high of -5 C on Friday.

If that sounds good, an even milder weekend is on the way. Temperatures could reach 0 C by Sunday, soaring above normal for late February.