The southeast received quite the storm to start off the weekend, with a Friday night system tearing apart some roofs in towns and hitting hard with some hail. Other areas in Saskatchewan had received a tornado warning earlier in the day, but what hit the southeast didn't swirl but still brought damage.
Crawford Luke, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, takes a look back at what the system brought us.
"Friday night, that storm that kinda blew through a lot of southeast places. It looked like a really intense storm, particularly west of Estevan, so I guess over in Midale and towards Torquay."
Midale was the hardest hit, with visible damage being reported on Friday and Saturday.
"It just looked like, especially in Midale, quite a bit of wind damage, some roof damage to some garages, it seems, and maybe some other structures, and a lot of sheet metal kind of debris just being blown around town." said Luke, "So, current thinking from us at least is that this was likely straight-line wind, so not a tornado, but that doesn't diminish how severe the storm was in any way."
Both the winds and hail were massive for the area, creating a very severe storm, according to Luke.
"It still took a pretty powerful wind to do that damage, probably in excess of 100 kilometers an hour, perhaps quite a bit stronger than that. So that was pretty significant. Also, that same storm produced tennis ball-sized hail, so again, that's also very significant. It was definitely a very intense storm, kinda no matter how you looked at it."
While the rest of the weekend saw no systems come in, the skies weren't exactly clear, as Luke explains that smoke entered the area over the weekend and is only now moving away.
"That warning has maybe just ended recently this morning. Air quality got worse over the weekend. It looked like this morning it was still pretty bad, but just in the last couple of hours, it looks like things have really started to improve."
Luke asks that anyone with weather reports from the weekend storm should report their weather experiences to Environment and Climate Change Canada, so they can get a better look at the impact in rural areas.