January 2021 in southern Saskatchewan goes into the record books as mild and dry.

Environment Canada meteorologist Terri Lang says Regina’s mean temperature was almost five degrees warmer than average.

She says the mean temperature was minus 9.9 degrees, 4.8 degrees warmer than normal and the 11th warmest on record.

Lang says most of the Saskatchewan grainbelt had temperatures four to five degrees warmer than normal.

she adds Regina’s precipitation in January was half of normal, 7.6 millimeters.

Precipitation in January ranged from 32 percent of normal in Swift Current to 73 percent of normal in Yorkton last month.