The all-time heat record for Swift Current was broken earlier today, following a week of scorching temperatures.

The mercury touched 40.0 C edging the previous mark of 39.2 C set back on August 6, 1949.

Terri Lang, a meteorologist with Environmental Canada, said she's seen these kind of temperatures before, but that was when she worked in the Okanagans.

"It's pretty surprising, we don't often see these temperatures here and we haven't seen them for a few years so it is really is something else to see them," she said. "To see this number of records fall is something else as well as some of the all-time records being broken.

"Especially the Swift Current record is a long-standing record, so it makes it that much more significant to see a record like that broken."

Swift Current wasn't the warmest place in the province but it was the only community to break their all-time heat record.

Maple Creek and Assiniboia tied for the hottest temperature in Saskatchewan at 40.1 C, both breaking their former August 10 records of 36.0 C (in 1984 for Maple Creek) and 36.7 (in 1988 for Assiniboia).

A few other places in the southwest broke their former August 10 records, Lucky Lake reached 39.9 C (old record was 36.1 C set in 1978), Leader hit 38.6 C (old record was 38.5 set in 1984), and Cypress Hills warmed up to 36.1 C (old record was 33.5 set in 1984).

"Sometimes we find it's just sort of an anomaly that some days have really low records compared to other days," Lang said about the records.

Smoke from wildfires in Alberta and B.C. played a role in the temperature as well.

"It probably could have even gotten hotter had the smoke not been there," Lang said.

Saturday the temperatures should cool down by a few degrees as the extreme heat begins to move towards the eastern part of the province.