-40 wind chills move in for Christmas, along with the polar vortex.
Saskatoon Forecast
Wednesday
It was a cold start to the day with temperatures down to -20 and wind chills as cold as -26 in the morning.
Partly to mostly cloudy skies stuck around right into the afternoon with miniscule warming, only up to -17 by noon.
Clouds cleared out during the afternoon with a marginal warm up by another degree or so into the minus teens, but it felt like the -20s with wind chill all day.
Thursday
-32 is around what it’ll feel like with wind chill as you head out the door Thursday morning with clouds rolling in early in the day.
Astronomical winter began Thursday morning at 10:28 a.m. in Saskatchewan.
Those clouds are associated with a trough that’ll swing through and bring in a chance of flurries during the day with a breezy wind that’ll help mix down some warmer air and boost our daytime high into minus single digits.
Friday
Another surge of cold air moves in behind that trough on Friday with daytime highs back into minus double digits and lingering cloud cover.
There is a chance of flurries during the day as well with a breezy west-northwesterly wind making it feel like the -20s with wind chill all day.
Christmas Weekend Outlook
We dive right into the deep freeze for Christmas weekend with daytime highs dropping from around -12 on Saturday into the -20s right through into the middle of next week.
You can thank the polar vortex, the cold pool of arctic air that normally sits over the North Pole, for the blast of chilly air.
Morning lows will dive back into the -30s for Christmas Day, Boxing Day and beyond with morning wind chills into the -40 to -50 range.
The weekend will start out with some clouds and a chance of flurries on Saturday, but we’ll see increasing sunshine on Sunday and mostly sunny skies on a frigid Christmas Day.
The Dec. 20 Your Saskatchewan photo was taken by Amber Grunow in Île-à-la-Crosse:
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