Estevan saw a good bit of heat over the weekend that also bled into Monday, creating a number of record-breaking days for high temperatures. With the regular seasonal temperatures sitting at around 18 degrees, the 30-plus that we saw over the weekend was bound to change some records.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Justin Shelley talks about the records broken around our area of the southeast.
"For the Estevan area specifically, we did see one daily record get broken. That was on Saturday, May 10th. The maximum temperature was 32.9, and that broke the previous record of 30, set back in 1977."
By comparison, the record on Sunday came just short, hitting 30.9 degrees, just behind the day's record of 32.2, set back in 1940.
Another near miss was on Friday, with Shelley wrapping up the weekend's heat.
"If we go back a couple of days previous to May 8th, we were also just short of the daily record on that day, also hitting 30.9, and just short of the daily record of 31.9, set back in 1987. So certainly a warm stretch."
Monday was yet another very close day, with the record set in 1958 at 32.8 degrees, and the top temperature recorded Monday was 32.6.
Despite all of these very warm days in a row, the southeast didn't receive any heat warnings from Environment Canada.
Shelley explains that's because the warning doesn't just take daytime temperatures into account.
"When we take a look at our criteria for heat, there are a couple of requirements, one of which is the daily high, which we have certainly exceeded. But there's also a minimum requirement for the overnight low to be 16 degrees or above. So you get the threat of the heat during the day, and then you don't get that reprieve overnight, and that's when a lot of the health impacts can be compounded."
The current forecast shows that we'll see a major turn in temperatures later this week, with freezing temperatures on the horizon.