Usually by this time of year there's a lot more snow on the ground. Environment Canada and Climate Change Meteorologist Natalie Hasell explains what's causing the unusual weather.

"We are under El Niño conditions. As the conditions change in the Pacific Ocean, it kind of sets up a shift in all of the chains of high and low pressure systems. Instead of most of the low pressure systems, the stuff that brings us the weather and the stuff that brings us all of the snow, instead of the tracks being somewhere across the southern prairies, the majority of the storms we will be seeing will be travelling much to our north."

Hasell highlights how these changes will affect winter in Manitoba.

"We will still have storms in southern Manitoba in the three months. We will still have some snow on the ground but considering the overall coursing with this El Niño situation, chances are on average as forecast we will see above normal temperatures. Probably in Manitoba we'll see a little bit less snow."

She notes despite many peoples' beliefs the lack of snow has been caused by global warming, Hasell notes it's hard to say, because no period of unusual weather can be pinned as being caused by climate change.