It's been an interesting year weather wise for the southwest and more specifically Swift Current.

A number of weather records have fallen in the southwest during 2018 including the all-time heat record in August for Swift Current.

At the Swift Current Airport weather station, it was recorded as 40.1 C on August 11 of this year, beating the previous mark of 38.9 C set back on August 5, 1961, August 6, 1949, and August 25, 1920.

"We don't see all-time August or July records being broken, especially over the last few years," Environment Canada Meteorologist Terri Lang said. "We've had quite average summers, we haven't seen those intense heats, so after a few years for that to come in... it really was quite significant for the province."

The coldest day on record for 2018 so far in Swift Current was -32.5 C, not including wind chill, on February 12 (which is 72.6 C cooler than the daytime high was on August 11).

"Saskatchewan has some of the highest temperatures ranges from winter to summer and extremes in the world," she said. "(It's) just because we're so far away from any source of moisture, like seas, oceans, that type of thing that tend to moderate temperatures quite a bit. It will moderate the cold and it will also moderate the hot."

With a lot of tornadic activity passing through the Swift Current area this past summer the general assumption might be that's when the strong wind guest would have happened, but actually, it was recorded on January 10 with a wind gust of 89 km/hr.

"Every winter it seems we have one of these and it's usually a Mackenzie screamer - we call them," she said. "So a big low-pressure system that comes down from the Mackenzie Valley, but we usually see these really massive warmups with them and then we see these really strong wind gust with them."

And the day with the most precipitation in Swift Current this year was on July 10 when it rained 23.2 millimetres in a two-hour span causing some flooding.

"When the rain comes in that intense, 23.2 millimetres doesn't sound like a lot over a 24 hour period, but over an hour or two that can quickly overwhelm sewer systems," Lang said.