Bundle up to stay warm, as extreme cold warnings remain for the entire Parkland Region.
Precision Weather Meteorologist Phil Spevak says a ridge of high pressure is responsible for the cold.
“What we have right now it’s high pressure building up from the west and we’re still sort of out of the influence of that blizzard from the other day,” Spevak said.
He says exposure to minus 40 wind chills can cause frostbite in under 15 minutes.
The Yorkton-Melville region has had wind chills past minus 40, while other areas of the Parkland are seeing wind chill values this morning either close or past minus 40.
But Spevak says we’ll see some reprieve from the extreme cold by tomorrow night, and will ultimately ease by this weekend into early next week.
“By Thursday night we’re close, then on Friday night we have some cloud cover and a little snow coming in…temperatures rising at night and that will keep us away from that extreme cold threshold, and then it looks like a more significant warmup comes in for Saturday night and Sunday into the early (next) week and that should put all of this behind us for a little while.”