Weyburn was warmer and wetter than average during the month just passed and broke a heat record on one day, as well.

According to records kept by Environment Canada's weather station in Weyburn, the city basked in a high temperature of four degrees above zero on Jan. 6, breaking a previous record of three degrees above zero. The previous record had been set in both 1963 and 1984. Records have been kept in Weyburn for the past 50 years, since 1952-53.

But Jan. 6 was not even the warmest day of the month in this city, which occurred the very next day, on Jan. 7 when the thermometer reached 7.5 degrees above zero. The record for Jan. 7 is 8.5, set just last year, in 2002.

The warm weather turned much colder in the third week of the month, dropping to a low of
-33.5 on Jan. 26. That temperature set no records for cold, as the coldest January on record over the past 50 years has been -42, set in 1969 and 1993.

The mean minimum temperature in the city in January was
-18.21, compared to a long-term running average, since 1952-53, of -20.17. The mean maximum temperature in January was
-7.73, compared to a long term running average of -10.03.

The mean temperature for the whole month was -12.97 compared to a 10-year average of
-15.10.

Last year, in 2002, the mean monthly temperature over a 10-year period was -11.0 while, in 2001, the mean monthly temperature for the past 10 years was
-8.4. The average high temperature over the past 10 years in January was -10.1 while the average low temperature from Jan. 1993 to 2003 was -20.0 degrees.

Weyburn received 18.8 mm of water equivalent in January, compared to a record high precipitation level of 48.2 mm in 1989 and a record low level of 3.0 in 1958. The average precipitation in January over the past 50 years has been 21.8 mm.