February cold stretch leads to record-breaking temperatures

It was a record-breaking cold stretch for parts of Saskatchewan.

February saw some of the coldest days on record as extreme cold settled in for over a week.

Nearly 50 cold weather records were broken over multiple days.

Here is a list provided by Environment Canada:
 
Feb. 7
Buffalo Narrows, -46.4 C (previous record was -40 set in 1962)
Collins Bay, -43.4 (previous record was -42.6 set in 1972)
Key lake, -48.7 (previous record was -46.5 set in 2019)
Stony Rapids, -47.6 (previous record was -46.1 set in 1962)
Uranium City, -48.9 (previous record was -40set in 2019)
Waskesiu Lake. -40.3 (previous record was -38.2 set in 2019)

Feb. 10
Collins Bay, -40.9 (previous record was -39.5 set in 1981)
Key Lake, -47.6 (previous record was -45.5 set in 1994)
Rockglen, -31.9 (previous record was -30.1 set in 2008)
Southend Reindeer, -44.1 (previous record was -41.7 set in 1959)

Feb. 11
Assiniboia, -33.1 (previous record was -32.3 set in 2018)
Cypress Hills, -33.6 (previous record was -30 set in 1923)
Elbow, -37.7 (previous record was -33 set in 1981)
Kindersley, -36.9 (previous record was -34.4 set in 2018)
Last Mountain Lake, -37.3 (previous record was -36 set in 1981)
Meadow Lake, -40.4 (previous record was -39.7 set in 1979)
Outlook, -35.8 (previous record was -35.6 set in 1922)
Rockglen, -33.3 (previous record was -27.9 set in 2000)
Rosetown, -39.2 (previous record was -37.8 set in 1936)
Saskatoon, -39.2 (previous record was -38.9 set in 1905)
Watrous, -36.7 (previous record was -35 set in 1955)
Wynyard, -36.4 (previous record was -36.1 set in 1967)
Yorkton, -39.1 (previous record was -37.2 set in 1967)

Feb. 13
Broadview, -41.4 (previous record was -37.2 set in 1967)
Coronach, -37.2 (previous record was -33.1 set in 2020)
Elbow, -40.1 (previous record was -33.3 set in 1973)
Hudson Bay, -41.9 (previous record was -40.6 set in 1974)
Indian Head, -41.1 (previous record was -38.9 set in 1906)
Kindersley, – 36.4 (previous record was -34.4 set in 1951)
Last Mountain Lake, -42.5 (previous record was -34.0 set in 1990)
Lucky Lake, -36.3 (previous record was -31.7 set in 1973)
Meadow Lake, -37.6 (previous record was -37.5 set in 2020)
Melfort, -41.7 (previous record was -39.4 set in 1936)
Nipawin, -43.9 (previous record was -42.8 set in 1936)
Rockglen, -32.9 (previous record was -31.2 set in 2020)
Rosetown, -38.1 (previous record was -36.7 set in 1922)
Watrous, -41.5 (previous record was -35.1 set in 2020)
Weyburn, -38.4 (previous record was -33.9 set in 1970)
Wynyard, -39.2 (previous record was -33 set in 2007)
Yorkton, -39.2 (previous record was -35.6 set in 1951)

Feb. 14
Assiniboia, -34.2 (previous record was -33.8 set in 2019)
Coronach, -36.7 (previous record was -36.3 set in 1961)
Elbow, -37.5 (previous record was -34.6 set in 2007)
Kindersley, -34.4 (previous record was -33.8 set in 1979)
Lucky Lake, -33.3 (previous record was -33 set in 2019)
Rockglen, -32.6 (previous record was -30.2 set in 1970)
Watrous, -36.2 (previous record was -35 set in 1958)
Weyburn, -36.7 (previous record was -35.65set in 2007)
Yorkton, -36.5 (previous record was -35.6 set in 1967)

Moose Jaw and Regina didn’t break records during the cold stretch but did see some near record temperatures.

Feb. 7 saw Canada’s Most Notorious City reach -35.2, the fifth coldest temperature ever recorded for that day.

On Feb. 13, Moose Jaw reached -37.5 — third coldest temperature all-time in the city for that day. On the same day, Regina also saw it’s third coldest temperature ever for that day at -38.9.

Regina also saw the fifth coldest temperatures for Feb. 8 (-38.1), Feb. 11 (-38.3) and Feb. 13 (-36.8) during the cold stretch.

The coldest ever temperature recorded in Regina for February was -47.8 on Feb. 16, 1936.