Warm weather expected across Saskatchewan during May long weekend

While Saskatchewan residents can’t go camping yet, the weather over the May long weekend will offer some semblance of a spring getaway.

“Across southern Saskatchewan, it actually looks like a beautiful weekend — mainly dry, nice warm temperatures in the low to mid-20s across most regions,” Environment Canada meteorologist Terri Lang said Thursday.

“It looks like a very nice long weekend and this is the time, of course, that we have nowhere to go. We can get out in our backyards, I guess, and plant our gardens and our flowers and enjoy the nice weather.”

While the weather will be nice, it won’t be approaching record-breaking territory.

“People should get out there over the next few days, especially over the long weekend, because we finally get a nice long weekend and none of us can go camping or anything like that,” Lang said. “But it does look like a beautiful weekend so people should get out and do the social-distancing thing but enjoy the nice warm weather while it’s here.”

While Regina and southern Saskatchewan should enjoy a full three days of sunshine, Saskatoon could see some rain make its way into the area Sunday night and into Monday, according to Lang.

“That might put a kibosh on things on Monday, cooling off a little bit but still looking like a pretty nice long weekend,” Lang said.

So far May has seen a roller-coaster of weather in Regina.

“It started out on the warm side, but then we got into that cold snap. We did see some record-breaking (cold) temperatures across southern Saskatchewan over the last couple days, but I’m sure that we will see a recovery very quickly over the next couple days,” Lang said.

“We did have one day that did have a fair (amount) of rain and little blips and blaps here and there, but so far it has been a typical May.”

Saskatoon has seen much of the same but did get some snow as well.

“We had those record-breaking temperatures that last day of April and then we got a bunch of snow last weekend, which was horrifying and depressing all at the same time, and then we got into that cold snap,” Lang said.

Over the next 10 days, Saskatchewan can expect to see the same sort of unsettled weather pattern.

Lang also wanted to remind people we’re getting close to the summer severe weather season.

“We’re going to start seeing thunderstorms, which always carry a risk with lightning, and then into that really severe weather that usually starts ramping up in June,” she said.