Weather forecast throws curve balls as extreme wildfire risk continues
As very dry conditions continue is it not the sort of weather forecast crews tackling local wildfires would have been hoping for. Temperatures were expected to get to 29 Celsius Tuesday. That would be a record high for May 15.
Now there’s an added concern with wind gusts expected to reach up to 50 kilometres an hour and the possibility of lightning.
“An average high for Prince Albert [at this time] is around 18 degrees and an average low is 3 degrees, so it’s definitely well above average,” Jean Paul Cragg with Environment Canada told paNOW. “But what makes it significant is how dry it has been and continues to be in central Saskatchewan.”
And with the tinder dry conditions the forecast posed a further challenge because of the wind factor and lightning.