‘Warm and dry:’ Sask. forecast not promising for widespread rain

Saskatchewan farmers might be disappointed to not see rain in the province’s immediate forecast.

Kyle Ziolkowski, meteorologist with Environment Canada, said rain isn’t likely to make up any significant part of the weather for at least a week.

“There’s really no strong signals that are coming through right now that indicate there’s going to be widespread soaking rains or anything like that,” Ziolkowski said.

While there could be some showers in the eastern portion of the province on the weekend, Ziolkowski summarized the present weather as “pretty dry across most of the prairies.”

He said a cold front is presently sweeping slowly south through the southern part of Saskatchewan on July 6.

That cold front spent the morning lying across the Northern Grain Belt, from Meadow Lake through Hudson Bay areas.

The weather system is expected to move south throughout the day and arrive in Regina in the late afternoon or early, initiating some rain and thunderstorms Thursday afternoon and calming down by sunset.

Ziolkowski said those storms should be fairly scattered, with nothing too severe expected in Saskatchewan on Thursday.

Despite the name of the system, temperatures aren’t expected to drop significantly, staying in the low twenty-degree range during the day and lowering to about 10 C overnight.

“It’s funny … it’s really kind of a cool front,” Ziolkowski said, noting that in summer, cold fronts typically don’t bring major swings in temperature.

Temperatures should be on the upswing by Friday with more settled weather into the weekend.

“Warm and dry” is how Ziolkowski characterized Saskatchewan’s forecast.