The tulips aren’t going to be popping up any time soon in Saskatchewan.
There is a cold trend dominating the prairies because of a polar vortex driving cold air down from the Arctic.
Environment Canada meteorologist, Mike Russo, says it has been with us for the last week and will continue for at least another week with below normal temperatures for much of the prairies.
In fact, the long range forecast for April is for below normal temperature most of the month.
This morning (Mon), Key Lake woke up to a record breaking -36 degrees.
Every day, various communities across the province are breaking their record low temperatures, although neither Saskatoon nor Regina have yet.  Environment Canada says 11 communities across Saskatchewan broke cold-weather records overnight Friday and into Saturday morning, including Prince Albert where the temperature dipped to -33.1 C, shattering the old mark set in 1890.
The silver lining, Russo says, is that the forecast is for mainly sunny all week.  (with files from Canadian Press)