Pacific air warms up province; several records broken

Many areas of the province felt soaring temperatures yesterday, as seven communities from across Saskatchewan broke temperature records, some of which stood for generations.

A flow of warm Pacific air took the province out of the deep freeze it was in last week and we could see the warm temperatures for the next week.

Maple Creek was the provincial hotspot Tuesday reaching 13.4 degrees yesterday breaking the old record of 10.3 set in 1923.

Other areas breaking records yesterday were: (previous records in brackets)