Winnipeggers embracing warm weather to start April [Video]

It may have been cool to end March, but it appears April is going to start off feeling like spring.

“It looks like it’ll be somewhere between eight and 10 degrees above normal by the end of the week,” said Stephen Berg, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).

ECCC’s forecast shows it will be 11 C by Thursday and then 13 C from Friday to Sunday.

Winnipeggers and businesses in the city are taking advantage of the nice weather.

Shooter’s Family Golf Centre opened its driving range Monday and already had people getting some practice swings in.

“We like to try and open the last week of March, first week of April. So I’d say we’re on par for what we normally do. Last year, we obviously had a lot of snow in the late spring, so we didn’t actually open the driving range until April 11,” …