The new season brings flowers, rain, and hopes of a bountiful crop for local producers after a mild winter on the prairies.

 

Spring has sprung! We said so long to winter just after 6 o'clock Tuesday evening.

As predicted by Environment Canada, winter was a little milder than normal. Meteorologist Bob Cormier says most centres enjoyed the warmer weather. "Most of the prairies had slightly above normal temperatures when you look at the whole winter and near normal over the extreme south eastern part of Saskatchewan and portions of southern Manitoba. But the general rule of thumb was that the further north you went on the prairies the more above normal the temperatures were."

Snowfall varied on the prairies this winter with parts of central Saskatchewan getting more than double the normal amounts while southwest Saskatchewan received well below normal snowfall totals.