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Cooler temperatures over the next couple days will rise closer to the end of the week.
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After some extreme heat last week temperatures have now settled down, but some more heat is just around the corner.

The current cooling is going to send overnight temperatures dropping precipitously, down to below 10 degrees Tuesday night.

Environment Canada Meteorologist Natalie Hasell talks a look at the below-seasonal weather coming to the southeast.

"Today and tomorrow your temperatures are slightly below normal. Your nighttime temperatures will be much cooler than what you've seen recently, and also below normal, and then things pick right up again. So you are about to see a return of the surface ridge and the upper-level ridge."

Those ridges will result in the return of heat to the southeast, potentially back up to warning criteria.

"The stuff that brought you the heat last week is kind of reemerging or redeveloping into the prairies so we might have a few showery times between now and the really hot stuff that's supposed to happen maybe by the weekend, but generally speaking, we're talking about, not a lot of precipitation after today. Then these warmer and warmer conditions coming up, by the time we get to the weekend, we could see warning criteria."

With those showers coming in the risk that those develop into higher-energy thunderstorms is possible.

"Considering everything that's happened up to now, I would not be surprised to see thunderstorms kind of as a risk at least later this week. But today, for instance, we're not really expecting anything in the Estevan area, a little further east of from you though we could actually see thunderstorms."

"So you might not be too far for today and we'll have to wait and see for Thursday, but it wouldn't surprise me if we have convection that there could be thunderstorms involved as well."

With a return to heat by the end of the week Hasell says that families will still have to practice safe heat practices.

"All those precautions that you took last week will probably have to be taken again at this point. We're not thinking that the heat will be quite as bad as it was last week, but I also don't want to say that with any firm decisiveness because some models are suggesting that the temperatures could be really quite hot. So it's important for people to keep paying attention."

Hasell says that people should also keep an eye out for any smoke, with a chance of that appearing this week.

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