-40 to -50 wind chills return to start March after one of the coldest February’s on record.
Frigid February 2019
The numbers are in and February 2019 was one of the coldest ever recorded in Saskatoon.
Overall, the small, but chilly month ended up trending an unprecedented 11.7 degrees colder than normal.
A total of 14 days reaching extreme cold warning criteria, when normally the city only sees three days with -40 wind chills.
It was also a wetter month with 11.1 millimetres of melted snow reported at the airport, which is 126 per cent of the normal amount of 8.8 millimetres.
Saskatoon forecast
Friday
-35 is what it felt like with wind chill in Saskatoon to start March Friday morning as temperatures slid back to -23 degrees.
Light snow and a breezy northerly wind behind a cold front that swept through on the final day of February stayed fairly steady through the morning and into the afternoon.
A mix of sun and cloud with a chance of a few flurries stick around through the afternoon as conditions warm back into the minus teens by a few degrees.
Friday night
Extreme cold is expected to return Friday night as skies clear and an arctic high-pressure system brings back -30 temperatures and -40 wind chills.
Saturday
-43 is what it’ll feel like to kickoff the first weekend of March Saturday morning under mostly sunny skies.
A few clouds will roll in during the day as a breezy northwesterly wind kicks in and makes the afternoon high of -21 feel like the mid -30s all day with wind chill.
Sunday
Winds strengthen even further on Sunday with sustains speeds around 30 km/h and gusts pushing 50 km/h as temperatures climb from the mid -20s into the minus teens by a few degrees during the day.
A mix of sun and cloud is expected during the day as a surface trough slides through.
Work week outlook
The first work week of March will begin on a windy note as well with northwesterly winds staying strong under clearing skies on Monday with a chance of flurries earlier in the day.
Skies then clear into the middle of the week as daytime highs settle into the -10 to -12 degree range with overnight lows dipping into the -20s and morning wind chills into the -30s.
Claudette Mooney took the March 1 Your Saskatchewan photo in McDowall:
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