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By Derek Craddock

COOLER WEATHER

Cooler temperatures hitting P.A. but how long will it last?

Aug 8, 2023 | 3:17 PM

A cooling trend is hitting the Prince Albert area this week but is it a sign of things to come for the rest of the summer?

Temperatures are expected to drop to highs below 20 degrees with showers over the next few days.

According to Environment Canada, a change in the jet stream means the heat is not expected to roll in soon, bringing cooler weather but also the chance for unsettled conditions.

Meteorologist Terri Lang said it’s nothing out of the ordinary.

“We tend to see a bit more in the way of showers, thundershowers. For this time of year, it’s running about seasonal.”

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As for the rest of the month and summer, Lang said it’s hard to predict what is coming in the long term, as they can only confidently forecast conditions for the next seven to 10 days.

“Towards the end of the seven days, it’s showing another big ridge of upper high-pressure building from the west,” she said. “That’s usually what gives us the hot and dry weather conditions. If that holds true, we’ll get to return to more of the summery conditions.”

According to the long-term forecast, which looks at the next two weeks, temperatures in Prince Albert are expected to stay just below the historical average for daytime highs.

The Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts a string of cooler weather in the next couple of weeks, with the month ending with very warm weather before fall-like conditions start in early September.

Lang also took time to talk about wildfire smoke and the hazy conditions it’s created for Prince Albert and much of northern Saskatchewan.

While only one region in Saskatchewan, affecting Beauval and Île-à-la-Crosse, is under a Special Air Quality Statement, it doesn’t mean other areas of the province are out of the woods.

“As long as there’s fires burning in northern Saskatchewan, northern Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Yukon most much of British Columbia, it’s going to come and go, even flow, be bad and then get better,” Lang said.

The Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency’s wildfire status webpage said there were 44 active fires in the province Tuesday morning. Of those, 10 were contained, 21 were under ongoing assessment, 11 were protecting property, and two were not contained.

Saskatchewan has had 391 wildfires so far this year, well above the five-year average of 324.

-With files from 650 CKOM

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derek.craddock@pattisonmedia.com

Twitter: @princealbertnow