The extreme cold continues to hang around southeast Saskatchewan, with no end in sight to the string of below average temperatures. At best, we can expect the mercury to get close to the normal for this time of year, which is -6° for a daytime high, and -16° as an overnight low.

So far this month, Weyburn has seen an average temperature of -25.2°.

“When we look at the averages over the past number of years that we have records for Weyburn, if we compare averages, so far it’s on-line to become the coldest, and we still have half a month to go,” explained Terri Lang, a warning preparedness meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.

The coldest February on record was 40 years ago when the average temperature for the month of February was -20.5°. If the forecast holds true, the average temperature for Weyburn will be -21.6°.

The temperature is also close to the coldest month ever recorded in Weyburn, which was January 1982, when the average daily temperature was -24.2°.