People spent a lot of their Thursday searching for their snowshovel and then using it or firing up the snowblower as the eastern part of the province saw a significant snowfall that made highway travel treacherous. The system has moved out, but the cleanup continues with road conditions starting to improve across the province. Environment […]
Get out the snowshovels and stay off the highway. A winter storm has hit Saskatchewan with the northeast and east-central parts of the province getting hit the hardest with snowfall warnings out. In Regina, we have received just under five centimeters of snow. It is believed the Melfort, Nipawin and Tisdale areas will get about […]
The nice weather to start November looks like it will be stopped by Old Man Winter beginning to wake up. A weather system is set to make its way through Saskatchewan and pass along the Northern Grain Belt and Yellowhead Highway. Environment Canada has issued Special Weather Statements for much of central Saskatchewan, including Saskatoon, […]
The latest forecast from Accuweather says the Canadian prairies could see a bitterly cold winter. The La Nina weather pattern has formed in the Pacific, which means colder than average and stormy weather. This is due to an amplified polar jet stream, which can usher in colder air and more frequent storms. In Saskatchewan, the […]
The September weather stats from Environment Canada are in and as expected September was a very warm month in Saskatchewan. Saskatoon recorded its 14th warmest September on record with a monthly mean temperature of 13.7 degrees Celsius. Meanwhile, Prince Albert recorded its 11th warmest September ever with a monthly mean temperature of 12.8. Terri Lang […]
Environment Canada says a number of heat records were smashed in Saskatchewan on Saturday as the temperature went above the 30 degree mark in many centers. In all, 17 places in the province including Regina and Moose Jaw saw the record beat. Regina saw the temperature get up to 33,3 degrees celsius which broke the […]
The last day of August was marked by Regina getting hit with a storm that produced golf ball to pea sized hail throughout the city. The system bringing rain and hail hit shortly around 7 p.m. A tornado warning had been out for the Moose Jaw, Pense and Rouleau areas, but no such warning […]
Many in Assiniboia spent Tuesday afternoon assessing damage after a hailstorm hit the town, two hours south of Regina, on Tuesday morning. Curtis Nelson with Nelson Motors in Assiniboia says the sky got extremely dark around 8 AM with the storm hitting around 9. “It probably hailed for about 10 minutes I would say.” Nelson […]
Those in the western part of the province may want to keep an eye on the sky as the day goes on. A funnel cloud advisory has been issued for some western regions including Kindersley, Rosetown, the Battlefords and Lloydminster. The weather office says these types of funnel clouds are generated by weak rotation under […]
It is another smoky, hazy day in Regina because of forest fire smoke and it is expected it will get worse before it gets better. Environment Canada’s Terri Lang says the smoke isn’t coming from what is happening in northern Saskatchewan. “There’s a push of smoke coming in from the east. The upper winds are […]
