Environment Canada issues heat warnings for parts of Saskatchewan

For the third straight day, Environment Canada has issued heat warnings for areas of Saskatchewan.

Early Friday, alerts were issued for areas in the southeast around Carlyle, Oxbow, Carnduff, Bienfait, Stoughton, Estevan, Weyburn, Radville and Milestone.

The Pelican Narrows-Cumberland House-Creighton region in the province’s northeast also was under a heat warning.

Environment Canada said the warnings were issued because the temperatures are to reach 32 C during the day.

“A cooler airmass will move in on Saturday, and temperatures will return to normal seasonal values, which will bring an end to the warning level conditions,” Environment Canada said in its warning.

Meteorologist Rose Carlsen said it’s unlikely heat warnings will be issued for any other areas of the province Friday.

“We should be in kind of a cooler period for a few days before it starts to heat back up,” she said.

More details can be found on the Environment Canada alert page.

Thursday storms

Carlsen said the storms that blew through Saskatchewan on Thursday resulted in some reports of hail in the southeast, with stones ranging from nickel-sized to loonie-sized.

After that system moved into Manitoba, a storm complex from North Dakota hit the southern part of the province in the evening.

“We got mostly wind reports,” Carlsen said. “We had a report from Yellow Grass weather station that (the wind) went to 83 kilometres an hour, (winds at) Regina airport gusted to 89 kilometres an hour and farther south from Regina, before the storm approached the city, we actually had some radar-estimated winds that were approaching 130 kilometres an hour and there were reports of grain bins knocked over (and) power lines knocked over.

“It was a pretty intense storm south of Regina which thankfully abated a little bit by the time it hit the city.”