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There's a Chinook coming heating us up with a high of 27 expected tomorrow and 28 on Saturday. High River Online/Kevin Wallace
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There's a Chinook coming heating us up with a high of 27 expected tomorrow and 28 on Saturday. High River Online/Kevin Wallace
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There's a Chinook blowing into these parts over the next couple of days.

Stephen Berg with Environment and Climate Change Canada explains where this heat is coming from.

"It's largely from a ridge of high pressure aloft, there's also a low that's developing over northeastern B.C., that'll also have a bit of a Chinook effect with more of a southwesterly flow."

We're expecting to hit a high of 27 tomorrow and then up to 28 on Saturday, and the wind is expected to be somewhat gentle, but there's a cold front on its way.

"And then a bit of a cold front comes through and drops the temperature down quite a bit afterwards for another day... day and a half."

The high on Sunday is only expected to hit 12 degrees and then up to 17 by Monday, and back into the heat by Tuesday with a high of 25.

If you're wondering what happened in the Foothills on Tuesday afternoon when we were hit with a brief thunderstorm and windstorm, Berg said it appears we were hit with a microburst.

"It does look like there was a bit of a heavy thunderstorm and might've had some moderate-sized hail, and that might of produced a microburst, which might have given some localized wind gusts that were pretty strong."

Go to our website for the full seven-day forecast.