Rain and strong winds push in for the first full day of fall on Friday with a special weather statement in effect for Saskatoon.
Special Weather Statement
Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Saskatoon, Regina, Prince Albert and across southern and eastern Saskatchewan for a wet start to fall.
The culprit for the douse of rain will be a large and slow-moving storm system over the western United States that will move towards the Saskatchewan-Manitoba border over the weekend.
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This system will bring a prolonged period of rain across much of southern Saskatchewan from the end of the work week into the first weekend of fall.
The first wave of rain from this system pushed into southwest Saskatchewan Thursday morning, becoming more widespread over southern Saskatchewan into Saturday.
Rain is expected to continue Saturday, locally heavy at times, before it tapers off from west to east on Sunday.
In general, most areas of southern Saskatchewan should be seeing 30 to 50 mm of rain by late Saturday with localized amounts of 50 to 80 mm possible over portions of southwest Saskatchewan northeast towards the Hudson Bay region.
Rainfall warnings may be issued for areas which see 50 mm or more within 24 hours or 75 mm or more within 48 hours.
In addition, strong northwest winds are expected to develop behind this storm system Saturday into Sunday, with gusts of 80 kilometres per hour possible.
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Saskatoon Forecast
First Day of Fall
Autumn began at 8:21 a.m. CT Thursday morning across Saskatchewan with below freezing and a low of -1.8 degrees.
For the third day in a row, fog patches started the day before mostly cloudy skies took over.
Temperatures pushed up into double digits by 10 a.m. and then into the mid-teens, up to 16 degrees by noon.
Overall it was a pretty nice first day of fall as long as putting up with mostly cloudy skies wasn’t a problem with a daytime high of 18 degrees in the afternoon!
Friday
Wet weather kicks in for the first full day of fall on Friday.
Cloudy skies will start the day with the rain pushing in during the morning, picking up in intensity by noon before easing later in the afternoon.
Most models are bringing in 10 to 15 millimetres of rain during the day with a daytime high just into low double digits.
Winds will also pick up midday from the east-southeast at sustained speeds around 30 km/h with gusts upwards of 45 km/h.
Weekend
As that developing low pressure system pushes into southeastern Saskatchewan, rain is expected to continue at times for Saturday under cloudy skies.
There is a bit of discrepancy with how much rain may fall on Saturday, but temperatures will attempt to get into low double digits during the day.
Clouds should eventually clear on Sunday with a chance of showers early in the day and a daytime high back into the mid-teens.
Both Saturday and Sunday winds look to remain strong with sustained northwesterly wind speeds in the 30 to 40 km/h range with gusts upwards of 50 to 60 km/h at times.
Work Week Outlook
An upper ridge of high pressure will build in next week bringing in a summery start to the first full week of fall!
Mostly sunny skies should prevail right through the start of the week with daytime highs in the upper teens or even into the low 20s possible.
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