It's only been a week since the spring winter storm hit Portage la Prairie and the surrounding areas, but looking outside today, you wouldn't know it. In fact, within 24 hours, most of the snow that had fallen, melted.

PortageOnline reached out to Environment and Climate Change Canada to get numbers, but meteorologist Terri Lang says calculating precipitation is difficult due to the wind blowing the snow around.

"For the Portage area specifically, 8 millimetres of water-equivalent is what we came up with. I looked at the snow depth sensor and it went as high as 14 centimetres, but I don't think that's accurate, just because the wind was blowing around," says Lang. "The two volunteer stations that we have -- one came in with 2.8 centimetres and the other came in with 7.6 centimetres of snow. The water-equivalent was 7.4 millimetres, so somewhere in that range."

Temperatures have warmed up quite a bit, but we are still in a bit of a freeze-thaw cycle, as temperatures remain above zero during the day and are still dipping below zero at night. When asked if we're done with snow for the season, Lang laughed, and said she wouldn't be surprised if we did see more.

"No, I think it's a little too early to call that, just because we are in a cool pattern this spring," says Lang. "I think it's a little too early to say if we won't see any more flakes for the rest of the season."

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