Environment Canada has issued a heat warning for all parts of the Flagstaff and Beaver County regions including the surrounding areas. In fact, the heat warning covers most of Alberta and even parts of BC and Saskatchewan.
A “prolonged heat event” is expected to continue, as a large and slow-moving area of warm air from BC, with highs in the low- to mid-30s, which started on Tuesday, July 16, is expected to continue until at least Thursday, July 25, when The Weather Network is predicting that temperatures will fall to the high 20s.
Predicted night-time lows will also start to increase, from 17 degress to a minimum of 21 degrees.
The length of the predicted heat wave is fairly unique, meteorologists say, and the biggest impacts of the heat will come from that.
CTV Meteorologist Josh Klassen says he doesn’t expect that temperatures will go higher than 35C, but still expects that the forecasted temperatures over the next week will either hit or exceed record temperatures for areas in the province.
AESO hit just one grid alert during the last heat wave, on July 8 for a one-hour period during the evening. That was also the day a couple of heat records were set around the province, in Lacombe and Rocky Mountain House.
Patricia Harcourt
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