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No surprise to anyone that lives on the prairies that we get cold spells from time-to-time, but tonight's forecast has Brandon pushing into extreme territory. By wakeup on Saturday, Environment and Climate Change Canada is calling for the city to be at -41 (straight temperature, without windchill). If we do in fact get into the -40s, this will be just the second time since 2012 and the fifth time in the past 20 years that the overnight low has dipped quite that far.  

Though rare to get quite that cold, there's a good chance that your current car has been tested at even worse when on Jan 30, 2019 we saw -42.9.  

Dating back to 1941, the coldest day in the temperature data for Brandon is -45.6 on January 7, 1966. That year looks to have been particularly challenging. Going back to 1941, just 25 days are showing a low dipping into the -40s.... seven of those days all taking place in 1966! 

Brandon and nearly all of Manitoba are under an Extreme Cold Warning, with more details at https://weather.gc.ca/warnings/report_e.html?mb7#211612449373197129202102040501ww1171cwwg

Stay warm folks.... minus single digits look to be just around the corner later next week:  
https://ebrandon.ca/weather.aspx