More than a dozen temperature records broken as Sask. says goodbye to summer

Monday marks the first day of autumn, but it still feels a lot like summer in many parts of Saskatchewan.

A hit of hot weather was felt in the province over the weekend, toppling several temperature records on Sunday.

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A 108-year-old record was broken in the Scott area, west of Saskatoon, as temperatures hit 30.1 C, breaking the old record of 29.4 C, set all the way back in 1917.

Environment Canada meteorologist Rose Carlsen said it’s not unheard of to see temperatures surpassing 30 C at this time of year, but it is a bit unusual. She said southern Saskatchewan typically sees highs in the upper teens to low 20s at this time of year.

She said Regina hit 31 C and Saskatoon hit 30 C on Sunday, but neither city set a new record.

According to Environment Canada, 13 temperature records were broken on Sunday, and three communities tied the historic daily record high:

Assiniboia area: 30.2 C (previous record was 28.6 C, set in 1999);
Coronach area: 30.9 C (previous record was 28.0 C, set in 1999);
Cypress Hills: 26.7 C (previous record was 26.5 C, set in 1987);
Elbow area: 30.3 C (previous record was 29.0 C, set in 1987);
Hudsons Bay area: tied record of 25.6 C, set in 1948;
Kindersley area: 30.4 C (previous record was 29.7 C, set in 1987);
Last Mountain Lake: 31.2 C (previous record was 27 C, set in 1987);
Lucky Lake area: 30.6 C (previous record was 29 C, set in 1999);
Meadow Lake area: tied record of 28.6 C, set in 1987;
Outlook area: tied record of 31.1 C, set in 1917;
Rockglen area: 29.2 C (previous record was 24.4 C, set in 1976);
Scott area: 30.1 C (previous record was 29.4 C, set in 1917);
Stony Rapids area: 28.4 C (previous record was 22.9 C, set in 1987);
Uranium City area: 22.8 C (previous record was 20.4 C, set in 2011);
Weyburn area: 29.8 C (previous record was 28.7 C, set in 2008);
Wynyard area: 30.2 C (previous record was 26.1 C, set in 1987)

Carlsen said Saskatchewan residents can expect the warm weather to stick around through first few days of fall, although it won’t be as hot as Sunday.

“We’re not expecting it to be quite as warm,” the meteorologist said.

“We’re going to have some clouds coming in for today. That’s going to kind of keep our temperature down a little bit.”

She said some warm air is coming into the province from the west, allowing a warming trend over the prairies which is expected to continue through the middle of the week.

“We’re going to start to kind of cool off a little bit closer to normal – like the low 20s C – towards the weekend, but we’re not expecting any significant weather associated with this warming trend,” Carlsen said.

There could be showers in some areas of the province on Monday as well, Carlsen noted.

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