A meteorologist in Manitoba says the snow storm that hit us this week was one of the bigger snow events in Manitoba history. Scott Kehler, who lives in Winnipeg, puts some perspective on the storm.

"This storm was a fairly strong one by Manitoba standards. If you look back in history, and look at the records from the Winnipeg area, the snowiest day on record had 38.1 centimetres of snow back in 1935. This storm gave us about 25 centimetres in one day. It wasn't a record but it was definitely one of the snowier events we've seen in Manitoba history."

Kehler adds this big storm system has sent the jet stream south and that's why it's about to get bitterly cold by the weekend.

"For most of this fall, what we've seen is what's called, a ridge, over Manitoba which is when the jet stream stays to our north. And now, all of a sudden with this big weather system moving through, we've seen the jet stream suddenly shift to the south and, when that happens, it allows a lot of very cold arctic air to flood in from up north."

Kehler expects the below normal temperatures to stay around for at least a week and perhaps longer.