Over a dozen heat records fall across Sask.

Monday will go down as one of the hottest on record in Saskatchewan.

According to Environment Canada, 13 temperature records were broken across the province, including one that stood for more than 130 years.

The mercury in Prince Albert climbed to 31.8 C, smashing the old mark of 28.9 C set in 1888.

Cypress Hills, Elbow, Hudson Bay, Indian Head, Last Mountain Lake, Moose Jaw, Nipawin, Swift Current, Melfort, Waskesiu, Wynyard and Watrous also beat their all-time temperature records for Sept. 16.

Saskatoon and Regina both came short of breaking their records. In Regina, the mercury rose to 32.4 C, just shy of the 33.3 C record set in 1908.

Brad Vrolijk, lead forecaster with Environment Canada, said the late-season heat isn’t uncommon and, in this case, was caused by heat blowing in from the southern U.S.

“We had a feature called an upper ridge that very slowly moved across the province and pretty much set up a southerly flow from Texas to the prairies for three or four days straight. So we’re able to get a lot of heat from the central United States to move into the southern prairies,” he explained.

People might have also felt the humidity, which Vrolijk said was caused by moisture from the Gulf of Mexico that made its way north.

The forecast for the rest of the week is calling for temperatures to be moderate, but remaining slightly above seasonal normal values.