Extreme weather is expected to hit Saskatchewan this week, with temperatures feeling as cold as -40 C to -50 C with windchill to last until Jan. 2.
“It is unusually cold — even for the Prairies,” said David Baggaley, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. “To be this cold for this long, it’s quite an event.
“A few places probably can see -50 C windchills for Tuesday morning, which is quite extraordinarily cold,” Baggaley said, adding even relatively light winds of about 15 kilometres per hour may feel “very biting.”
He couldn’t immediately confirm if any records were being broken.
An extreme-cold warning due to an arctic ridge of high pressure is in
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