Murray Wood: Drought or deluge, it's Saskatchewan weather
Murray Wood notes that while we have seen years with "perfect" weather in the province, they aren't that commo...
After a few wild days, the weather is returning to normal in Saskatchewan.
The province saw heat warnings and records were broken near the end of last week.
There were also severe thunderstorms and even tornado warnings Saturday afternoon.
Now, David Baggaley, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, is forecasting seasonal temperatures.
“What we’re looking at for pretty much all of southern Saskatchewan is near-normal temperatures for pretty much the next week or so,” he explained.
It’s a bit of a different story in Saskatoon and central Saskatchewan, where there is a chance of some thunderstorms.
“It will probably not be severe, but they will probably get a decent amount of rain up there over the next couple of days,” he said.
He believes that’s not a bad thing, as the region could use more moisture.
“We were always worried about forest fires up there. This will go a long way to prevent those,” he explained.
As far as Baggaley knows, the tornado warning from Saturday never actually turned into a real tornado.
“What we had was a very strong thunderstorm cell coming from Alberta … It looked really bad on the radar. It had a lot of rotation, so there was a tornado warning put out. But, as far as I know, it has not been confirmed as a tornado,” he said.
The forecast shows daily highs in the low 20 C range for Saskatoon over the next week. In Regina, it’s the same except for Tuesday, which is set to be sunny and 27 C.
