It's a picturesque day here in Weyburn, at least for now.

Weyburn residents woke up today to hoar frost on every surface. The particularly pretty affect has a scientific explanation, given to us today by Meteorologist Sara Hoffman with Environment and Climate Change Canada.

"So when the sky is clear, heat that has built up over the day on the earth's surface from the sun, actually gets reflected more easily back to space," she shared. "So, if there's clouds, that heat gets trapped and it stays warmer. But if you had a perfectly clear night overnight, that heat gets reflected back to space. There's nothing to stop it and cools at the surface."

But the best part, of course, is that it also forms on every little thing that's outside.

"Al those like objects, or bits and pieces, like tree branches, is where hoarfrost likes to form, too."

When it cools rapidly like that at night, she said, any moisture that's lingering at the surface will hoarify as well.

She said hoar frost, contrary to some old wives tales, is not associated in any way with an incoming precipitation event or storm of any kind.

"It just means you had a clear night last night or mostly clear night, and then any lingering moisture in the air froze to the surface and you can see it this morning," she stated.

The hoar frost won't stick around for long, however. Temperatures are expected to become unseasonably warm once again. Find out more in our five day forecast HERE.