With the Alberta Clipper making its way through Saskatchewan today, the main story of the weather system is going to be the wind. Snow is already blowing around in the area with the highest wind speed recorded at the time of this writing at 73km from the weather station in Kindersley, and freezing rain has been reported in the area as well.

According to Environment Canada Meteorologist Terri Lang, the storm is likely to last the rest of the day with travel conditions on the road nowhere near ideal until things calm down tomorrow morning. With 90km hour gusts and 2cm of snow expected to start falling around noon, the storm isn't expected to stay that bad all day long but it will die off slow enough that conditions won't be favourable the rest of the day.

"What will happen is those winds will slowly diminish throughout the afternoon, but they're still going to be gusting to 60 kilometers per hour still at dinner time so I think it's going to be sort of mid to late evening before things really subside."

The storm is set to hit most of Saskatchewan and while the 90km winds expected in the West Central area may seem bad, some other places around the province are going to get it worse the further north you head.

"It's already making its way into the province, and it's a Clipper because it moves really, really fast, so that's what's going to happen. We've had some snow with freezing rain as well reported, and conditions will quickly deteriorate from west to east as this Clipper moves in. Not too much snow south of the Yellowhead Highway, so about maybe 2 to 5 centimeters, but enough to blow around

If you're following the weather radar this morning, which can do on our website by clicking here, you can see the storm is coming from the south end of the Canadian Rockies, but the mountains tend to mess with weather radar so it can be hard to see anything coming behind that system on the map. Lang says that based off eye witness reports in the area, the worst of the storm has already revealed itself.

"There's not much in behind it, and most of the stuff will have moved off the mountains already so what you see sort of as the back edge is probably the back end. We don't have good radar coverage in the mountains and the one radar that we have, Silver Star in BC, it actually points down so that's how hard it is to get radar in the mountains, but what you see as the back edge is the back edge."

The weather after this storm comes through is going to cool things down to more seasonal temperatures starting tomorrow. While the temperatures may not be the coldest, the wind chill values over the next while may make the days to come that much colder.

"It's going to be turning colder and then we're going to get the Arctic air moving in behind the Alberta Clipper so they're probably expecting those wind chill values to really increase, and we may see extreme cold warnings in the near future."