August, normally the warm and sunny end to the summer, is instead seeing a lot of clouds, rain, and a bit of cool air coming into the southeast this week. Environment and Climate Change Canada's forecast begins the week with storms today, while the end of the week will see even more moisture.
Scientist Christy Climenhaga talks about our current downpour and what we should expect throughout the day.
"A pretty unsettled day across Saskatchewan, and eastern Saskatchewan, the risk of some showers and some thunderstorm activity through this afternoon. Pretty widespread risk expected, with the main threats being large hail, heavy downpours, and, of course, strong winds too. Looks like that thunderstorm activity will be pretty widespread and last through the overnight period too."
A bit of summer weather will peek out tomorrow, before Climenhaga says another wet system busts into the area.
"Looking forward, it looks like we're going to have a little bit of a break from that showery weather as we make our way into the day tomorrow. Then we'll start to see a little more unsettled weather moving in towards your Friday, even into Saturday with a low-pressure system moving through. It looks pretty widespread and slow-moving, so it'll probably bring you in some showery weather through the start of the weekend."
Temperatures will also cool once we get to the end of the weekend, creating a below-average temperature for the weekend.
The cold weather is likely to pull down a bit of smoke as a reminder that we're still in wildfire season, says Climenhaga."
"Looking at the smoke, there is a lot of smoke in the air because of those fires burning in north central Saskatchewan. We're having a little bit of a break in the southern part of the province for today, even for tomorrow, but then starting to see a little bit of a shift. Looks like we might see that smoke start poking back into southern Saskatchewan in the southeast through your day on Thursday."
The weather is expected to break at the beginning of next week, with a slow return to seasonal averages.