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Up and down weather

Hot temperatures to be followed by rain this week

Jul 7, 2025 | 12:29 PM

More up and down temperatures are expected to continue this week across the province.

While the next couple of days will be hot, with temperatures rising to the low 30s, they will quickly drop to the low 20s by the end of the work week, with expected rainfall and possible thunderstorms.

“Just some warm air mass right now, or at least moving in for Tuesday and Wednesday, I should say, with winds coming out of the south both those days. Then, it looks like either on the day Wednesday or perhaps Wednesday evening, a cold front will move through, coming out of Alberta, so west to east. That’ll bring a chance for some thunderstorms and showers later in the week, as well as some cooler temperatures in behind it for Thursday onwards,” explained Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) meteorologist Crawford Luke.

“I wouldn’t say these ups and downs are not normal, it’s just kind of the pattern that we’re in. Sometimes we get into these stretches where it’s unsettled every day, and sometimes we get into these stretches where it’s kind of hot and sunny for several days in a row. Right now, we’re just kind of going back and forth with a little bit of everything, and that just kind of seems to be what the next five to 10 days are looking like.”

For the Melfort, Prince Albert, Battlefords, and La Ronge areas, temperatures are set to rise to at least 30 degrees by Wednesday, if not Tuesday as well. In most cases, rain and cooler temperatures will then descend on Thursday and Friday before warming back up to the high 20s for the weekend.

According to Luke, no heat advisories are expected to take place, as the very warm temperatures won’t last long enough to need one.

“Just based on the current forecasts we have out, I wouldn’t anticipate a heat warning for this week. Right now, we’re sort of looking at kind of just a one-day wonder… when you have one hot day and then it cools down again, normally for those heat warnings, we’re looking for at least two hot days in a row,” he added.

When the rain does fall later in the week, as it stands right now, not a lot of mass is expected.

Because it is anticipated to be mostly thunderstorms, they are typically hit or miss with the amount of moisture they actually bring.

“It’s pretty variable, who gets the rain and who doesn’t. We’re not really seeing any kind of organized rain on the horizon. There’s a chance we could get some bigger thunderstorms that bring a lot of rain to the region, but that’s something that’s hard to predict more than a day or two out. Right now, there doesn’t really seem to be a strong signal for a lot of rain, so I’m kind of seeing like five millimetres or less by the end of the day, Friday,” Luke continued.

“I know a lot of the dryness problems across the province are pretty long-term, so I would assume we need quite a bit more rain to kind of keep addressing those problems.”

As for smoky skies, they should stay away during the heat, as winds will be blowing strongly out of the south. Once the colder front arrives, however, the winds will return to their typical direction, coming from the northwest, which could bring smoke from wildfires in Northern Alberta back into the province.

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