A major temperature difference over a small geographical region was the perfect recipe for the wind storm that we saw back in October.
The record-breaking wind storm clocked in at over 130km/h at one point during the evening of October 14th, and comes in at #5 for out Top Stories of 2017.
"The previous record was recorded on October 16th, 1991, where a wind gust of 119km/h was reported," said Bryan Van Willgenburg, a Meteorologist with Evironment and Climate Change Canada. "This new record will be 131km/h, that was recorded at 9:54 pm."
Our city got the brunt of the windy system that evening, with residents losing power and possessions as the night went on.
"With a major storm event like this one where there's really strong winds, it's not that unlikely that at least one location will experience record-breaking winds, and in this case it happened to be Moose Jaw."
Van Willgenburg stated shortly after the storm that it was common to see above average daytime highs; however, that usually isn't the case for a system like this.
"For something like temperatures, these records are getting smashed a little bit more frequently these days, but wind records are holding on a little bit longer."
Here's a gallery of some photos submitted to us after the record-breaking wind storm this year.