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By Susan McNeil

Weather

A snowy Christmas awaits north central Saskatchewan

Dec 24, 2025 | 1:01 PM

Drivers heading home for the holidays in north central Saskatchewan will notice decent roads in the Prince Albert to Melfort and North Battleford areas but they won’t be quite as good further north.

Highway Hotline showed black roads in the east to west band but they end slightly north of Prince Albert. Black equals bare and dry on the Highway Hotline website whereas yellow are partly snow covered and pink are snow covered but still drivable.

Big River and Montreal Lake roads are pink but most other communities such as Meadow Lake, Montreal Lake and east to Tobin Lake and highways north and east of Nipawin are only partially covered by snow.

Travellers on Highway 2 from Christopher Lake to La Ronge and communities further north will all see some snow on the roads, but not that much.

Things could change as snow and wind are expected in some areas.

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Prince Albert will get up five centimetres on Christmas Eve with 15 km/hr winds and a wind chill of –25.

Christmas Day will get up to –12 with a 30 per cent chance of flurries and clear up over night.

Environment Canada predicts that the Battlefords will have similar temperatures but a higher likelihood of snow on Christmas Day and Boxing Day at 60 per cent. The amount will cap at 5 cm.

Meadow Lake is looking at five to 10 cm of snow tonight with wind chills reaching –27 but warming up on Christmas Day to –13.

Snow will taper off tomorrow but likely make a return on Boxing Day.

La Ronge will probably not see the snow that places further south will get but the temperatures will drop on to –26 as Santa makes his way back home.

A small possibility of two to four cm of snow could fall by Christmas morning but temperatures will increase to –16.

Residents of the Melfort area will be glad they aren’t getting the same amount of cold with a low of –19 Christmas Eve and –12 on Christmas Day.

Clouds and some consistent snow fall of two to four centimetres are projected both days between December 24 and 25.

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susan.mcneil@pattisonmedia.com