August will close with some warmer-than-usual weather in the southwest over the last stretch of the month.
"A really warm ridge of high pressure basically building in through parts of northern Alberta, northern Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, Yukon, British Columbia," said Crawford Luke, meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada. "It's really just kind of centered around that 60th parallel. It just looks like it's going to expand to include all of western Canada over the next week to ten days or so."
That means some warm temperatures for Swift Current and area.
"It looks like the heat is mostly concentrated towards northern Alberta," Luke said. "The further away from that you are the less impacted you are. What that means for Swift Current and the southwest is still a pretty warm stretch today, and especially Tuesday/Wednesday getting into the low 30s. Some hot days."
That's ahead of the usual high of 23 or 24 for this time of year.
Luke expects temperatures to remain above that into the middle of next week.
He noted that August is on track to finish as a hotter month than July for Swift Current this summer.
Luke also doesn't anticipate enough rain to get close to the monthly precipitation record despite a very wet start to the month.