Heavy rainfall splashes down on eastern Sask.

Parts of east and southeast Saskatchewan saw a large amount of rain over the last 36 hours.

Certain places saw up to 65 millimetres of rain within that time period, which is set to delay seeding season for many farmers now.

Eric Dykes is a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada and highlights some of the major spots we saw the rain.

“Yellowgrass is at 65.4 millimetres, Weyburn at 64.6,” Dykes said were the two highest amounts.

Radville is calculated at 55.6 millimetres, Milestone received 51.6mm and Rockglen got 50.3mm.

In terms of major cities, Regina wasn’t too far off seeing 39.6 mm of rain. 

Yorkton received a similar amount of 40-45mm of rainfall.

Saskatoon only saw between 10-20mm of rain. According to Dykes, more rain fell on the east part of the city opposed to the west.

Dykes says the rain won’t help farmers in terms of seeding season.

“It’s going to be detrimental for seeding certainly in eastern areas of the province where water levels are already rather high,” Dykes said.

Meanwhile, it’s a completely different story out west.

“Over in the western sections of the province, rain is desperately needed in the Swift Current and Kindersley areas and so forth.

“Mother nature’s giving rain where rain is not necessarily needed or wanted unfortunately for farmers at this time of year,” Dykes said.

Moving ahead to this week, Dykes says the weather system is a bit tricky to figure out.

The province is most likely to undergo a dry period for roughly four days and then there’s a chance of wet flurries that could touch down by the end of the week.

“Right now, there is a chance we could see from west to east some rainfall. Late in the week, we could actually (have) a load of wet flurries mixed in with that,” Dykes said.

Dykes said the wet flurries possibility is set for the central Saskatchewan area.