Summer of unsettled weather expected across the Prairies

30-Jun-2026

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It hasn’t exactly felt like the start of summer across the southern Prairies. 

The trend this June has been below seasonal daytime highs, severe thunderstorms and unsettled weather.

It’s all due to a persistent pattern of upper low pressure systems coming from the Pacific and stalling out toward the Prairies. 

That's "kept us really cool, cooler than average maybe, especially further west. Alberta maybe a little bit less so overnight,” said Julien Corriveau, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC).

“Saskatchewan [is] kind of in between where it's been a little bit closer to average.”

The province’s average temperatures are closer to seasonal because of the warmer overnight lows in the low to mid-teens.