Saskatoon in a deep freeze headed into the weekend

A frigid blast of wintertime is making itself felt successful Saskatchewan.

This morning, cardinal Saskatchewan, including Saskatoon, was nether an utmost acold warning. Now, the acold volition mostly beryllium present to enactment heading into the weekend.

According to Environment Canada, Saskatoon could spot temperatures autumn to -28 C overnight, with a upwind chill of -37 C.

Stephen Berg, a meteorologist with Environment Canada said the acold temperatures aren’t unusual, but they are unseasonably cold.

“For the past time successful Southern Saskatchewan, temperatures person been up to 20 degrees colder than normal,” Berg explained. He said successful Saskatoon, the mean for this clip of twelvemonth is astir -5 C.

“It’s very, precise acold for sure.”

Those acold temperatures are expected to proceed passim the weekend, but the prima volition beryllium retired adjacent week.

On Tuesday, temperatures are expected to scope positive 1 for the archetypal clip successful a while.

He said moving guardant into the winter, radical tin expect much acold snaps followed by lukewarm temperatures.

“This mightiness beryllium a lawsuit wherever you person periods of overmuch colder temperatures and snowier conditions and past immoderate periods erstwhile it mightiness the temperatures mightiness rebound and get into above-seasonable territory,” Berg said.