Several areas of the province will be getting their first taste of winter today in the form of heavy, wet snow—-courtesy of a Colorado low.

It moved into the southwest corner of Saskatchewan on Saturday evening, dropping 11 centimetres of snow in the higher elevations of Cypress Hill.

In other areas of the province, snow is melting on contact early this morning, but will start to accumulate as the day progress. Between 10 and 15 centimetres of snow could fall in the Swift Current, Moose Jaw, Assiniboia, Shaunavon, Regina, Lumsden, Lanigan, Humboldt and Wynyard areas. A strong wind later on today will also reduce visibility.  This is the link to the warning for east-central Saskatchewan.

The Yorkton, Melville and Moosomin areas will have the risk of freezing rain later today.

CJWW’s Neil Billinger spoke to Environment Canada Meteorologist Shannon Moody around 6:30am Sunday