Today marks the first day of spring, but the presence of winter still remains.
On Thursday evening, the overnight low temperature will be around the minus 20 °C mark.
Danielle Desjardins, Weather Preparedness with Environment and Climate Change Canada says the trend will continue for the next couple of days before reverting to spring like conditions next week.
“Friday and Saturday are a little bit cooler and then we spring back into positive temperatures, so, temperature highs of zero and five degrees.”
At the beginning of March, a slow melting process began in the Humboldt area which was followed by a blanket of snow.
Desjardins says a slow melt will continue in the area.
“We’re not seeing any huge amounts of warmup so that will certainly help with a slower melt.”
Winter got an early start in the area with a couple of significant snowfalls in November. The extreme cold temperatures began in early December and reappeared over the first couple of months of 2025.
“It was a little bit of a mixed winter,” said Desjardins.
She noted southern Saskatchewan experienced a colder than normal winter, with the Moose Jaw about 2.2 degrees below what they usually see in the winter.
In the northern portion of the province, La Ronge was 0.5 degrees warmer than the average. When it comes to central Saskatchewan, she said it was on par for an average winter.
Even with the significant snowfalls during the winter, Desjardins said this past winter was on the drier side. Besides the weather station in Key Lake, the remaining weather stations reported below average precipitation levels, in particular Prince Albert and North Battlefords only received half the amount of precipitation they usually get during winter.