Heat through Thursday, then smoke — who gets it first and what changes
Three more days near 27, an air quality statement waiting in the wings, and a cooldown that arrives with the weekend.
The pattern holding over the city is the August standard: highs near 27 through Thursday, overnight lows around 13, and a light southeast flow that keeps the afternoons pleasant and the evenings uncertain.
The uncertainty is smoke. Fires burning northwest of the province have been sending plumes south all week, and the models split on whether Thursday evening's wind shift drags the haze over the city or slides it east of the Henday. The air quality index sits at 4 — moderate — with a special statement likely if the northern track wins.
The practical version: morning runs and evening games are fine through Wednesday; Thursday evening plans should have an indoor option. Windows-open sleeping weather ends whenever the smoke arrives, and returns behind the front.
That front comes through Saturday with a high of 19, a few millimetres of rain, and air that has been somewhere clean. The forecast block on our front page updates through the day; the full forecast link carries the hour-by-hour.
