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After more than a week of extreme cold warnings across much of the province, the cold snap in Saskatchewan is finally coming to an end.
Rose Carlsen, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said the extreme cold warnings should be lifted on Thursday, although there are still several places in the province hitting -40 C with the wind chill on Thursday morning.
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“Once we are lifted out of the -40 C, we’re not expecting any regions in Saskatchewan to go back into that -40 C tonight,” Carlsen said.
Carlsen said temperatures across much of Saskatchewan are rising significantly heading into the weekend.
“We are in Canada, so it’s possible for it to get cold again. However, we’re expecting above-normal temperatures for this weekend and then starting to get back into more seasonal temperatures,” she said.
According to Environment Canada’s forecast, Regina can expect a high of -15 C on Thursday, followed by highs of -4 C, 0 C and 2 C on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. In Saskatoon, the high for Thursday is -13 C, with highs of -2 C and 0 C on Friday and Saturday. The Bridge City is expected to see a daytime high of 5 C on Sunday.
But Carlsen warned that the province could potentially see another cold snap before end of the winter.
“We’re not expecting any sort of plunge into the cold that we’ve been experiencing, but I couldn’t rule it out for the rest of the winter,” the meteorologist said.
The warming temperatures come after a polar vortex parked itself over the prairies, triggering the extreme cold warnings on February 9, and breaking several long-standing temperature records over the Family Day Long Weekend.
Carlsen said there is now a pattern shift in the weather, which is bringing some above-zero temperatures to Saskatchewan.
“It’s shifting out the flow from the Arctic to more westerly, so we’re going to get more of the air source from over the Pacific Ocean, which is considerably warmer.”