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By CKOM News Staff

‘Siberian Express’ on its way to Saskatchewan

Jan 23, 2023 | 12:00 PM

It’s going to get nasty in Saskatchewan again.

David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, told the 650 CKOM Morning Show that a polar flow will settle over Saskatchewan next week.

“This week looks OK, (with) temperatures that are still going to be on that balmy side, but next week — I’m thinking Jan. 29 or 30 and the first day of February — it’s going to be the Siberian Express has come back, that polar vortex that will create wind chills and remind you of where you live,” Phillips said.

“It’ll be sort of like what you had sometimes there in December or late November. It’s not the first one (this winter), but I think you got seduced into thinking that winter was over.”

The approaching cold front dropped temperatures in Siberia to -65 C. Phillips said people in Saskatchewan will have to deal with what he called “a challenge” when the weather arrives, but he said it should be short-lived.

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“The flavour of February will be a little cooler — seasonable (and) cooler than normal — but it’ll be so dominated by that tough week in the first week of February,” he said.

That cold snap will follow a month of above-average temperatures.

“It has been one of the mildest Januarys, so it’s telling you the weather has been very boring,” Phillips added. “It has been consistent. It has been not changing at all.

“You wake up in the morning and you don’t need to be a meteorologist to know: Hey, tomorrow’s going to be like yesterday.”

While temperatures have been above average, so has the fog. Phillips counted as many as 14 days of fog in the first three weeks of the month.

“C’mon!” he said. “That just doesn’t happen to you guys.”