Frosty weather sets new cold records in the Southwest

Just days after record setting hot weather in the region on August 17 to 20, the Southwest plunged into record setting cold temperatures during a frosty Tuesday morning.

The unwelcome cold weather arrived early, even though summer does not officially end until September 22.

Environment Canada reported that 20 new cold temperature records were set across the province this morning.

Swift Current plunged to -4.9 Celsius during the early morning hours of Tuesday, September 8, breaking the former mark of -1.1 Celsius set all the way back in 1898.

Assiniboia dropped to -6.4 Celsius to easily break the previous record of 0.5 Celsius dating back to 1986.

Lucky Lake set a new record of -6.0 Celsius to erase the old record of -1.1 Celsius set in 1972.

Other cold temperature records set on September 8 were:
Coronach (-8.8 Celsius, old record -1.5 set in 1995).
Elbow (-8.0 Celsius, old record -2.8 set in 1939).
Estevan (-4.7 Celsius, old record -2.2 set in 1910).
Kindersley (-3.8 Celsius, old record -1.1 set in 1929).
Last Mountain Lake (-3.6 Celsius, old record -2.5 set in 1986).
Meadow Lake (-3.3 Celsius, old record -2.8 set in 1961).
Moose Jaw (-5.5 Celsius, old record -2.8 set in 1895).
Outlook (-4.8 Celsius, old record -3.9 set in 1917).
Regina (-4.5 Celsius, old record -3.3 set in 1898).
Rockglen (-4.3 Celsius, old record -0.0 set in 1974).
Rosetown (-5.6 Celsius, old record -2.2 set in 1972).
Saskatoon (-6.9 Celsius, old record -1.1 set in 1917).
Scott (-3.4 Celsius, old record -3.3 set in 1961).
Spiritwood (-6.3 Celsius, old record -3.3 set in 1948).
Waskesiu Lake (-2.3 Celsius, old record -2.2 set in 1974).
Watrous (-4.7 Celsius, old record -1.1 set in 1955).
Weyburn (-4.2 Celsius, old record -1.5 set in 1986).