Amateur storm chaser Brian Penner captured video of debris spinning as a funnel cloud crossed the road near Dugald and Anola during a violent thunderstorm in southern Manitoba.

Winnipeg hit a record daytime high of 35.2 °C (95.36 F) on May 12, 2025, shattering a 67-year-old May 12 temperature record amid Canada’s first heat wave of the year, Environment and Climate Change Canada reports.

A record-high temperature set in Winnipeg in 1888 was among 21 previous records that were broken Sunday across the province.

City deals with impact of early-season snowstorm on roads, energy grid, tree canopy.

A dry winter exacerbated by a drier spring has left a wide swath of southern Manitoba in a state of moderate to severe drought, with much of the rest of the province classified as "abnormally dry."