UPDATE: All warnings mentioned in this story have now ended.
SASKATOON – The City of Saskatoon and other parts of central and southeastern Saskatchewan have been placed under an extreme cold warning. A period of very cold wind chills are expected overnight Tuesday and into Wednesday morning.
Northwest winds of 20 to 30 kilometres per hour combined with temperatures near -30 will result in wind chill values of -40 or lower overnight.
Conditions are expected to moderate Wednesday morning as temperatures rise.
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Extreme cold warnings are issued when very cold temperatures or wind chill creates an elevated risk to health such as frost bite and hypothermia.
Wind chill describes the felt decrease in air temperature on exposed skin caused by air flow. It is important that humans are aware of wind chill values because extreme cold conditions can cause frostbite, which is the freezing of skin.
At extreme wind chill values skin can freeze in a matter of minutes.
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Extreme cold warning for:
- Saskatoon
- Regina
- Martensville – Warman – Rosthern – Delisle – Wakaw
- Outlook – Watrous – Hanley – Imperial – Dinsmore
- Humboldt – Wynyard – Wadena – Lanigan – Foam Lake
- Fort Qu’Appelle – Indian Head – Lumsden – Pilot Butte
- Estevan – Weyburn – Radville – Milestone
- Kamsack – Canora – Preeceville
- Yorkton – Melville – Esterhazy
- Moose Jaw – Pense – Central Butte – Craik
- Carlyle – Oxbow – Carnduff – Bienfait – Stoughton
Extreme cold warning ENDED for:
- Assiniboia – Gravelbourg – Coronach
- Moosomin – Grenfell – Kipling – Wawota
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