Farmers that have been seeing some snow this week probably won't mind pushing seeding back in order to benefit from the moisture.

The majority of the prairies are being impacted by dry to extremely dry conditions, that not only impact the prairies, but carry on through the Western half of the U-S and Mexico as well.

Drew Lerner, the Senior Agri-Meteorologist with World Weather Inc, says the system which brought the snow this week mainly impacted parts of Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

"Moisture totals at least in a part of that region will temporarily be lifting the moisture profile at least in the topsoil, but it's not all the way across the prairies. There's a lot of other areas that will not be impacted by this."

Lerner notes in studying past data, even within the last couple of years, they've found there's a tendency for drought relief in the southern part of the prairies to occur in April and May.

"Areas from Southern Alberta through Southern Saskatchewan, to a fair amount of Manitoba, have often got some significant moisture to occur during those two months, April and May. Now it's not necessarily just widespread good soaking, but in three different analog years that we're looking at, there was enough moisture to improve the profile in the soil and to set the stage for better planting conditions."

Lerner also focused on what we could see for weather in the months ahead.

"So a little relief in April and May. June is kind of stuck in the middle as it could be still favourably moist, but we could end up starting to dry down already. Then the summer comes along, we're probably going to have some dryness in at least the southern parts of the prairie and the South East in particular."

You can listen to Drew Lerner's Weather Report on our stations, or you can find more information here.