Although an extreme cold warning is still in effect for the southern portion of the province, we are in for a reprieve from the frigid temperatures said Environment Canada Meteorologist, Dan Fulton.
“There's a low-pressure system, moving through northern Saskatchewan into southern Manitoba that'll be coming in later tonight and into Tuesday, and what's what that's doing is it's kind of pushing the cold Arctic air that's settled in over the prairies, pushing it to the east, actually.”
“Milder Pacific Air is going to come in and kind of bring a reprieve from the Super cold temperatures we've been having over the last few days.”
Fulton explained that warmer temperatures are supposed to linger until at least the remainder of the week, with daytime highs that go no lower than the -10º mark and generally pleasant conditions for this time of year.
“Looks like there'll be some kind of weak systems going through that might drop a couple centimeters of snow here and there, but nothing too big on the horizon.
“There’s actually not a bad stretch of January weather coming up.”
He noted that although you could be fooled by the most recent cold snap – that sent temperatures plummeting down into the -40º range with the windchill, prompting extreme cold warnings throughout the southern portion of the province – no weather records were broken in the Moose Jaw area.
“The record low for today is actually -43º set way back in 1907, so (the record) is not in any danger of being broken.”