While it's not quite heat warning weather, but staying hydrated this weekend will still be a good idea. (ID 110197817 © Kittisak Jirasittichai | Dreamstime.com)

By Rob Mahon

Heat For Street Fair

Heat warning to miss Prince Albert, but warm weather ahead for Street Fair

Jun 17, 2022 | 1:00 PM

If people have been scanning weather forecasts in other parts of the province, they’ve likely noticed the western half of Saskatchewan is getting their first heat warnings of the season. So, should we be prepared for heat warnings in Prince Albert?

According to Environment Canada, the answer is no, but that doesn’t mean we won’t feel some effects of the ridge causing the warmth. Right now, one could almost draw a line down the middle of the province to see which parts are getting the hottest.

“The apex of the ridge, if you can imagine it, that’s causing the heat, will kind of reach into the Battlefords area and then collapse southeastward,” said Terri Lang, regional meteorologist with Environment Canada. “So it’ll just kind of nick you.”

Criteria for a heat warning has some variance between different regions of the province, but one thing that is constant is a two-day criterion. Prince Albert won’t get two days of heat warning weather, but we might get one.

“It looks like some nice weather is finally upon us,” Lang said. “Today, we’re looking at highs in sort of that low-to-mid-20s, some nice temperatures there. Tomorrow, really cranking up that heat. Probably in the low 30s.”

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That’s good news for the Prince Albert Downtown Street Fair, which kicks off tomorrow just in time to get the benefit of the hot, sunny weather. The only fly in the ointment is likely to be the humidity, which might make it uncomfortably hot for some.

“The humidex is a feels-like temperature, it’s not a real temperature,” said Land. “It’s kind of like wind chill that way. When the humidex values are high, it means the humidity is high and your body isn’t able to cool off as fast as it normally would if it was dry.”

That high heat level isn’t likely to hang around, as Environment Canada predicts the temperatures will drop the very next day and return to seasonal before long.

“The long events tend to be quite devastating on some people, especially on those that are immunocompromised or the elderly,” said Lang. “We’re not expecting it to last long. It will go into sort of more of a seasonal period.”

Lang added that Prince Albert is also on the very edge of a system coming through central Saskatchewan that could bring some rain with it, so we might get some showers at the end of the day.

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