Despite high speeds, near zero visibility, and a number of vehicles stuck on the road for upwards of seven hours in West Central Saskatchewan, overall the area faired well during Monday's Alberta Clipper. Shannon Moody is a Meteorologist with Environment Canada, and she says that they knew the storm would come in fast and leave slowly, but they didn't realize just how long it was going to last.

"It lasted for about nine hours, which is pretty much on par with with what some of the other regions were reporting as well. We were expecting conditions to deteriorate in the morning which happened, but yeah they did last like a little bit longer than expected."

Weather data collected from the seven weather stations in West Central Saskatchewan (Kindersley, Rosetown, Scott, Biggar via Scott, Leader, Outlook, and Lucky Lake), the highest wind speed recorded in the midst of Monday's storm was a whopping 93km/hr around 7pm from the Kindersley Airport. According to Moody, that number may not be the most accurate as it was estimate, but with 80km/hr gusts recorded at 11am at the Leader Airport is an accurate representation to the storm.

"So that was estimated unfortunately, but I mean not to say the winds weren't significant, right? They were gusting to 72 kilometres per hour, so definitely winds gusting to 70 were experienced with that falling snow and they reported about four hours of 0 visibility at the air."

The storm seemed to affect some other areas of the province much worse than it did here in West Central Saskatchewan. North towards Turtleford received a large amount of snow with the storm although the winds mostly stayed below 70km an hour, and the southeast corner of Saskatchewan is still dealing with the storm that has brought wind gusts over 80km/hr for over six hours during the evening.

"We did have snowfall warnings over the Northern Grain Belt area, so that's where we are expecting the most snow. In the South, the real story was the winds that really like caused a lot of issues with blowing snow and the peak wind gusts looked to be over southeastern Saskatchewan from what I could find. There'll certainly be like a full summary that will be sent out later today, but in through Estevan they had gust over 90 kilometers per hour reported."

In the Swift Current area, an ambulance was storm stayed in the midst of the storm for a while and was in the middle of an accident as a result. More coverage from yesterday's storm is to come. Highways around most of West Central Saskatchewan have been opened once again with winter driving conditions, and you can check the Highway Hotline by clicking here.