Environment Canada took a look at some of the big weather events over the year in a recent release, and their top event is one that affected all of Saskatchewan.
Throughout the summer, smoke poured into the province as wildfires raged across Alberta and B.C., with areas at times going for days without clear skies.
Environment Canada meteorologist Danielle Desjardins talks about the wildfires in Jasper and the effect they had on us here in the southeast.
"Saskatchewan recorded I believe the second smokiest summer on record, so those fires did spread and wildfires were a major weather event over the queries for the summer and it did make the top ten list."
After such an outsized impact on the area and that event taking the top spot, Desjardins says that the rest of the year just saw off-average weather.
"Just looking back at the year, it was a warmer and drier winter, which was, you know, unusual, didn't make the top ten, but other than that, there were just other events that were a little bit more extreme, I would say."
One curious bit from the southeast over the years has been our fall and the lead-in to winter which Desjardins describes as a wild swing.
"The fall as well, very dry, warmer than normal up until about mid-November than winter really hit hard and now we're kind of full-blown into the colder than normal temperatures. All in all, it seems like the first half of fall, we're almost making up for the first half of fall, where temperatures were warmer than normal and now we're kind of into the winter-type weather where we're getting a lot of snow and extremely cold temperatures."
Speaking of those swinging temperatures, Desjardins advises people to keep an eye on the forecast as so far this winter we've seen swings between unseasonable warmth and cold over the past few weeks.
"Some kind of roller coaster weather is kind of looking like it's going to continue for the next week and a bit. We see a few days of warming and then another ridge of high pressure bringing cold Arctic air. So we're not out of the clear for the extended forecast for this extreme cold, it's gonna hit again."