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Saskatoon weather outlook: changes move in for Thanksgiving weekend

  • September 2017 stats
  • Fall returns in full force
  • Warm end to the week
  • Big change for Thanksgiving weekend
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WATCH ABOVE: Fall returns in full force, but big changes move into Saskatoon's weather forecast for Thanksgiving long weekend – Oct 5, 2017

Fall returns in full force, but big changes move in for Thanksgiving long weekend!

September 2017 Stats

September 2017 was way warmer and slightly drier than normal in Saskatoon.

Daytime highs really took the cake with an average high during the month of an unprecedented 20.4 degrees, which was over 2 degrees warmer than the normal high of 18.3 degrees.

Saskatoon was way warmer and slightly drier than normal in September 2017. SkyTracker Weather

Overnight lows were 0.6 degrees above normal, putting the month an average of 1.4 degrees warmer than normal.

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Saskatoon saw 16 days above 30 degrees in 2017, when normally we only see 13 in a year.

Saskatoon saw 3 more 30 degree days in 2017 than the city normally sees on average in a year. SkyTracker Weather

Precipitation-wise, 29.1 millimetres was reported at the airport in September, which was 82 per cent of our normal of 35.4 millimetres.

Rainfall totals from April 1 to October 2, 2017. Courtesy Ministry of Agriculture

Most of that fell in a heavy rainfall on Sept. 19 when 19.4 millimetres fell on the city – the most rain reported at the airport in a single day in over a year!

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Saskatoon saw the heaviest rainfall reported at the airport in a single day in over a year on September 19, 2017. SkyTracker Weather

Saskatoon Forecast

Thursday

-7 is what it felt like with wind chill to start the day in Saskatoon as temperatures fell back to -4 overnight.

Mostly sunny skies kicked off the morning, but some high clouds filtered in for the middle of the day as we rose up into double digits by noon.

Those clouds stuck around into the afternoon before clearing out later on as we hit a high in the mid teens.

Fall colours are in full force across Saskatchewan. Courtesy Lisa Diewold
Calm conditions in Saskatoon combine with beautiful fall colours. Courtesy Jayvee Sadie

 

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Friday

-5 is what it’ll feel like with wind chill as you head out Thursday morning with lots of sunshine to start the day before clouds roll back in later in the afternoon.

A breezy southwesterly wind and a bit of upper ridging will help boost temperatures up a bit further during day with a high pushing into the upper teens expected.

Short-lived upper ridge slips through the region on Friday. SkyTracker Weather

Thanksgiving Long Weekend

A cold front will slide through on Saturday, bringing with it a chance of showers early in the morning and some clouds to start the day with west-northwesterly winds of 40 km/h with gusts upwards of 60 km/h.

Strong west-northwesterly winds kick in behind a cold front on Saturday. SkyTracker Weather
Upper trough dives back into central Saskatchewan to start the long weekend. SkyTracker Weather

Daytime highs will slide back from low double digits on Saturday into high single digits Sunday under mostly cloudy skies with a chance of showers or flurries as strong winds continue.

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Winds remain brisk and cool into Sunday across central Saskatchewan. SkyTracker Weather

Thanksgiving Day on Monday will be sunnier and less windy, but it will also be cooler, with an afternoon high struggling to get out of mid single digits.

Thanksgiving Day Monday will be cooler, but also sunnier than the other days of the long weekend. SkyTracker Weather

Work Week Outlook

Slightly warmer air will push in to start the work week with daytime highs expected to return into the teens with some more sunshine on Tuesday before clouds return along with a system mid-week.

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Here is your Saskatoon SkyTracker 7-Day Weather Forecast.
Here is your Saskatoon SkyTracker 7-Day Weather Forecast. SkyTracker Weather

Paradise Beach was the setting for Owen Ritchie to take the Your Saskatchewan photo:

Paradise Beach was the setting for Owen Ritchie to take the Your Saskatchewan photo for October 5. Owen Ritchie / Viewer Submitted

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