Warm temperatures persist in Saskatchewan
WATCH: Heading closer to the weekend, warm temperatures will stick around in much of Saskatchewan. Sabeen Ahmad has your forecast.
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- CTV News
A cool and wet end to the week with scattered thunderstorms starting Thursday
As expected, a strong low-pressure system has parked over central Alberta and will become the main weather-maker for most of the province over the next 48 hours. Anchoring high pressure systems will hold that low in place and allow rain to be drawn in from the Pacific basin and wrap around the counter-clockwise rotation, pulling colder air in from the north. Eventually, that system will start to track south and then east but before it does, heavy accumulations of rain are likely to fall west of the capital. A cool and wet end to the week with scattered thunderstorms starting Thursday Rainfall warnings (green), air quality statements (grey), and air quality warnings (purple) issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2025. Rainfall warnings have been issued by Environment and Climate Change Canada with the agency explaining between 50 to 75 millimetres is possible. 'Thunderstorms may help enhance rainfall totals in some locations this afternoon and evening,' with rain in that area expected to start to ease tonight and early Friday. That system will edge along the foothills and through central and southern Alberta on Thursday, potentially bringing rain and thunderstorms as far south as Calgary. Friday will include persistent rain across central and southern Alberta with between 5 to 10 millimetres possible for Calgary. The daytime highs across the region will be below seasonal on Friday, but will warm up to seasonal values for Saturday and Sunday with more sunshine in the forecast.
CBC
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- CBC
St. John's firefighters respond to 8 bonfires in 2 days, despite provincewide fire ban
Despite a provincewide fire ban in effect across Newfoundland and Labrador — and three raging wildfires — the St. John's Regional Fire Department is still responding to bonfires. On Tuesday, Forestry Minister Lisa Dempster announced a provincewide fire ban, which will be in place for at least the next month. Premier John Hogan expressed frustration that the day the ban was implemented, firefighters had to respond to three bonfires. Then on Wednesday, firefighters were called to another five bonfires. Platoon Chief Ed Sears said it's extremely frustrating and "mind-boggling." "We are out doing everything we can, and there's still people [who] choose to go have their backyard fires, and not take this seriously at all," Sears told CBC News. He said people need to be penalized for it. "These conditions are not normal, and you have to heed the warnings that are being put out, and they have to be taken seriously." Sears said firefighting resources are taxed because they are already focused on the current fires. He said it seems like people are aware of the provincewide fire ban, yet they are deliberately choosing to have bonfires. "It appears that unless it affects them directly, they don't seem to care enough. They don't worry about their neighbours, their adjacent properties." Meanwhile, with dry conditions and no precipitation expected in the near future, Sears said the number of fires could get worse. He added St. John's is surrounded by trees and vegetation, and given the dry conditions, a fire would quickly spread. "We all like our backyard fires, but this is a time that you need to listen to the people that are giving the directions, and absolutely have no fires whatsoever," he said. In July, a fire started in the Quidi Vidi neighbourhood, destroying several stages and wharves, but because there was no road access, firefighters could not reach it. Sears said terrain and other factors can make their work challenging, so they may face a similar problem in the future. Increased fines on table On Tuesday, Hogan said the current fines for violating the fire ban "are way too low," and he's looking at increasing them. It's a move Sears supports. "The government is looking at changing the amounts of fines there now, but right now, we will be taking personal information, and fines will be given out," he said. Sears said he doesn't understand how people think they can get away with having fires, given the current circumstances. He said people are on alert for fires. "They're not going to get away with it."
CBC
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Winemaker hand-watering vines as Prince Edward County bakes
Staring down the driest summer in his 15 years owning a vineyard, Tim Kuepfer has resorted to something he describes as "nearly impossible" — hand-watering each one of his roughly 12,000 plants. While a field crew slowly moves from vine to vine, he's been driving back and forth between Broken Stone Winery and Wellington in eastern Ontario's Prince Edward County, filling and hauling a pair of 1,000 litre water totes to try and keep up. "Honestly, I'm doubting my own sanity considering it, but I don't know what the option is," Kuepfer said. "I have to make sure that I do everything I can to prevent loss of the crop. It's just the way it is." He estimates he'll make the 20 kilometre round trip 60 times over the course of a week to gather enough water for the whole vineyard. Then it will be time to start the process all over again — until it rains. 70-90% less rainfall than normal The county, known for its wine making, has been sweltering under an unrelenting sun. It stands out as having the largest rainfall deficit in southern Ontario since the beginning of the summer, according to Environment Canada spokesperson Alexandra Cournoyer. Over the past two months the county has had 70 to 90 per cent less rain than would normally be expected and that trend is likely to continue, for at least the first two weeks of August, she added. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada classified conditions in the region as either "abnormally dry" or "moderate drought" as of the end of June. Signs of the weather are everywhere: scorched lawns, stunted crops and leaves littering the ground like mid-October as trees try conserve moisture. For Kuepfer it's meant watching his plants yellow and some grapes shrivel on the vine. "We are definitely going to experience 15 to 20 per cent loss in production because some of the plants, the weaker plants, have just given up and lost all their leaves," he explained. At this point in the season he's already sunk thousands of dollars into pesticides, labour and fertilizer, but that's not the only impact. Kuepfer said it takes an emotional toll too. "This year seemed like it was going to be the perfect year," he said, describing how the crop flowered beautifully and there were plenty of grapes earlier on. Broken Stone isn't alone. Kuepfer said grape leaves are yellowing across the county and some, especially those with shallow soil over bedrock, might not end up harvesting anything at all. Others, with deeper ground or deeper pockets have been watering for weeks already and will likely make out OK, according to the winemaker. Other crops struggling too It's a similar story for all crops around the area. Don Williams, a seventh generation farmer and vice-president with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture, said it's been a "depressing" growing season. It started in the spring with wet weather that bogged down planting. Now growers are confronting "extremely dry" conditions that threaten soybeans, while corn in some parts of the county is "looking terrible," he said. "We don't control none of it," Williams said of the weather. "That's the thing with farming is you take what you get." The farmer said you have to be optimistic in order to plant something and hope it grows, adding you just "gotta think that the rains are going to come." Kuepfer said after years in the business he's developed somewhat of a stoic attitude to weather and is trying to look for positives too. Smaller grapes mean a good juice-to-skin ratio and tend to make good quality wine, but he still needs to be able to make enough of it to profit. Right now there's no rain in sight and Kuepfer said quick calculation on the cost of watering shows it's around $1,000 a day. Based on experience from past dry years, he's holding onto a hope all that work could result in some weather-related reverse psychology. "Every time before, when I started watering the vineyard, it's always rained almost immediately."
