After days of smoky haze, drivers in Saskatoon had a new problem to deal with this morning.

Just after 9 a.m. CST, a semi-truck carrying pea starch spilled around 1.5 metric tons of the flour onto the street. The spill occurred at 51st Street and Faithful Avenue.

A truck drives through a thick layer of pea flour in Saskatoon's North Industrial area. (Jordan Johnson/CBC News)

The swirling mass blew through the air and made driving difficult before police shut the intersection down.

Saskatoon Fire said the flour leaked after a semi-driver had to make an abrupt stop, and the flour flew out of the back, even though it was covered by a tarp.

The fire department made sure to block off storm drains to make sure the material didn't travel down into the water system.