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Big Shell

Resort village · population 64 · RMs of Spiritwood No. 496 and Leask No. 464

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Weather in Big Shell

0° Chance of light snow Feels like -4° with the wind chill · Wind WSW 12 km/h, gusts 29 · Humidity 90%
  1. Tonight -4°
  2. Fri 2°-7°
  3. Sat 4°-4°
  4. Sun 5°-2°
  5. Mon 7°-2°
  6. Tue 8°-3°
  7. Wed 6°

Tonight: Rain mixed with light snow ending early this evening then cloudy with 30 percent chance of light snow. Fog patches developing near midnight. Wind up to 15 km/h. Low minus 4. Wind chill minus 8 overnight.

Normal for today: high 3°, low -7°

  • 9 h 44 min of daylight, 3 min 56 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 8:00 a.m., sunset 5:44 p.m.
  • Frost likely tonight, low -4°
  • Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24
  • On this day: record high 19° in 2008, record low -18° in 1925

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Forecast for the Spiritwood area, 32 km away, observed at Spiritwood at 7:00 p.m. Forecast and alerts from Environment and Climate Change Canada; water advisories from the Water Security Agency and the Saskatchewan Health Authority, checked at 8:04 p.m..

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Box 130
Shell Lake SK S0J 2G0

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Big Shell is a resort village on the shores of Shell Lake, in the Rural Municipality of Spiritwood No. 496 in west-central Saskatchewan. It became an incorporated resort village on August 1, 1982.

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