A record-tying 10 tornadoes were reported across Saskatchewan on Friday as a dangerous heat wave is fueling extreme weather across the Prairies.
The reports tied the province’s one-day tornado record, previously set in June 2025, while Environment Canada warned more tornadoes are possible as hot, humid conditions persist.
“We had 10 reports of tornadoes in Saskatchewan yesterday,” Environment Canada meteorologist Kayla Bilous said in an interview with Global News.
The tornadoes developed as a prolonged heat event settled over southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, where heat warnings remain in effect.
“There is essentially a large upper ridge over the area and that is pushing really warm and moist air into our area,” Bilous said. “We’re expecting to see really high humidex values over this weekend and into early next week.”
The agency has issued heat warnings across much of southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba, with orange-level warnings in parts of southeastern Saskatchewan and southern Manitoba where humidex values are expected to reach the mid-40s.
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For Winnipeg, Bilous said humidex values are forecast to climb from 42 Saturday to 45 Sunday.
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The prolonged heat isn’t limited to the Prairies.
Heat warnings are also in effect for parts of northwestern Ontario near the Manitoba border, where temperatures are expected to reach the low to mid-30s with humidex values up to 42 through late Tuesday.
While the tornadoes have caused damage in some communities, Bilous said there have been no reports of injuries or deaths. “There’s definitely some towns that were hit,” she said.
When asked about the outlook for the week ahead, Bilous said the severe weather threat isn’t over.
“We’re expecting more tornadoes in Saskatchewan again today.” Bilous said, adding that the heat will linger on as well.
“It looks like summer’s in full effect, and we’re going to be into the upper 20s and low 30s for pretty much the rest of the week here.”
Environment Canada is urging residents to stay hydrated, limit strenuous outdoor activity during the hottest part of the day and continue monitoring weather alerts as both the heat and the risk of severe storms continue.
@An Oni Mouse. Agreed. Climate change deniers also confuse weather and climate.
Y’all climate deniers seem to be operating under the notion that air currents respect provincial and/or national borders. It’s a *global* problem for a reason. Even if you don’t consider 10% of boiling point to be a significant increase, other parts of the world are seeing larger increases. Warmer air moves more, more air movement creates more extreme weather farther away.
So the actual heat isn’t doing it. Its the humidity. A ‘prolonged heat event’. That would be called summer.
As a kid on the prairie, I saw many tornados, spent more time hunkered in my basement than I would like to remember. The young reporters and ‘scientists’ have zero experience. They are told to blab what is needed to keep the fear high. They sit in an office and watch computer models spew endless garbage using padded numbers and climate change ‘science’.
$3.2 billion going to Environment Climate Change Canada and what do we get for that money? Nothing. Canada’s temperature hasn’t been reduced, still tornados.
I wonder if all the new data centers coming in will have air conditioning….
With another 13billion dollar Data Center proposed for northern Alberta, the “heat domes” will appear more frequently. Water will slowly disappear, and it will be because of “climate change”…
Heat wave? What heat wave? Must be coming from ‘global warming’…
Weather Network Headline: “Feeling like 50: Hottest temperatures of the year coming to southern Canada”
According to the article, “many” may experience temperatures “exceeding 40” while the hottest forecast is for Winnipeg at 36, or 46 with humidity.
According to the article it is basically 10 C hotter than typical seasonal temperatures.
This is hysteria. Scientists do not use hyperbole, rat eating politicians, news orgs, and activists do.
The weather is so extremely dangerous that the only solution is to tax gasoline and give a portion of those profits to low income families.
If you can make sense of that, you are a liberal voter.
So summer in Saskatchewan
OH MY GOD WE WILL BE IN THE HIGH 20s!!!
Weather hysteria
The tornadoes have nothing to do with the heat. That part is normal this time of year. It was the great abundance of COOL weather and rain the month preceding.
where were they, near what community.