Warm weather breaks 14 temperature records in Saskatchewan

After a mild holiday season and then a nasty cold snap, the warm temperatures have returned and are once again breaking records.

According to Environment Canada, 14 communities broke temperature records in the province Sunday for Jan. 28.

• Buffalo Narrows, 7.8 C (5.1 C, set in 2000)
• Collins Bay, 0.9 C (-2.1 C, set in 2000)
• Coronach, 8.9 C (8.5 C, set in 1988)
• Cypress Hills Provincial Park,  10.7 C (10 C, set in 1992)
• Key Lake, 3.3 C (1.5 C, set in 1989)
• La Ronge, 4.7 C (4.4 C, set in 2001)
• Meadow Lake, 5 C (4 C, set in 2011)
• Regina, 4.7 C (3.9 C, set in 1909)
• Rockglen, 6.3 C (5.2, set in 2017)
• Southend Reindeer, 1.5 C (0 C, set in 2001)
• Stony Rapids, -3.4 C (-3.4 C, set in 2020)
• Uranium City, -0.4 C (-2.7 C, set at 2000)
• Waskesiu Lake, 7.7 C (3.5 C, set in 1992)
• Wynyard,  5.4 C (3.8 C, set in 2016)

The hottest spot in the province on Sunday was Maple Creek at 14.9 C, but that did not break the community’s record for Jan. 28.

Waskesiu smashed its record with the biggest jump of more than four degrees to 7.7 C.

The fall and winter season has seen many other temperature records snap in the balmy weather.