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Extreme cold warning in effect for Medicine Hat & surrounding areas

Feb 11, 2018 | 3:24 PM

MEDICINE HAT, AB. – Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for Medicine Hat and surrounding area overnight.

The wind chills are predicted to drop the temperature down to minus 40 or colder tonight, but will warm up on Monday.

Take caution if you are headed outdoors in the overnight hours as frostbite can develop in minutes on skin exposed in extreme cold temperatures. 

The extreme cold warning is in effect for the following areas:

City of Medicine Hat

Co. of Forty Mile near Bow Island and Whitla

Co. of Newell near Patricia

Co. of Newell near Tilley and Rolling Hills

Cypress Co. near Bowell and Redcliff

Cypress Co. near Bowmanton Schuler and Hilda

Cypress Co. near CFB Suffield

Cypress Co. near Dunmore and Woolchester

Cypress Co. near Irvine and Walsh

Cypress Co. near McNeill and Sandy Point District Park

Cypress Co. near Seven Persons

Cypress Co. near Suffield and Hwy 879

Cypress Co. near Tide Lake

S.A. 2 near Bindloss Empress and Social Plains

S.A. 2 near Buffalo and Cavendish

S.A. 2 near Iddesleigh and Dinosaur Prov. Park

S.A. 2 near Jenner and Atlee