Over the weekend 12 communities across the provinces saw record-breaking lows. However, southwestern Saskatchewan didn't see any.

Robyn Dyck, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, says that Swift Current did come close.

"It was a near record Saturday morning/Friday night," she said. "Swift Current reached -22.5ºC, but the record was -24.4ºC, and that was set in 1975, so no records for Swift Current. But there were a lot of records broken across southern Saskatchewan over the last few days over the weekend."

Records were broken in Moose Jaw, Assiniboia, Kindersley, Rosetown, Weyburn, Meadow Lake, Melfort, Nipawin, Prince Albert, Watrous East, and Wynard.

Dyck says the reasons for the record temperatures were due to a high-pressure ridge.

"Right now, the whole Canadian prairies are under the influence of a surface high-pressure ridge," he said. "We have a cold weather coming in from the artic associated with that ridge. Each location will have specific weather as a result of that. It won't be exactly the same everywhere."

Dyck noted that their long-range weather forecasts did predict March and April to receive below-average temperatures.

Though Swift Current didn't break any records all time, March 29 (-17.5), March 30 (-20.3), March 31 (-22.5), and April 1 (-20.4) in the city recorded the lowest temperatures in the last seven years.

Dyck added that the next few days the cold is expecting to continue to in a few weeks the southwest might start to see some warming temperatures.