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Elbow

Village · population 341 · RM of Loreburn No. 254

The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool grain elevator, 2016 · Canadaadanac, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0

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-1° Mainly cloudy Feels like -6° with the wind chill · Wind W 19 km/h, gusts 30 · Humidity 82%
  1. Today 1°-6°
  2. Fri 2°-5°
  3. Sat 5°-7°
  4. Sun 6°-3°
  5. Mon 7°-1°
  6. Tue 9°-5°
  7. Wed 7°

Today: Mainly cloudy. High plus 1. UV index 1 or low.

Normal for today: high 5°, low -6°

  • 9 h 54 min of daylight, 3 min 38 s shorter than yesterday · sunrise 7:52 a.m., sunset 5:47 p.m.
  • Frost likely tonight, low -6°
  • Waning gibbous · the Beaver Moon is full Nov 24
  • On this day: record high 20° in 2008, record low -23° in 1991

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Forecast for the Elbow area, observed at Elbow at 3:00 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 3:23 p.m..

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Box 8
Elbow SK S0H 1J0
Hours
Monday and Tuesday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Thursday and Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Elbow’s history

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Elbow was founded in 1909 and incorporated as a village on April 6 of that year. It sits in the Rural Municipality of Loreburn No. 254, near what is now Lake Diefenbaker. The village took its name from its position on the elbow of the South Saskatchewan River.

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The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool grain elevator, 2016
The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool grain elevator, 2016Canadaadanac, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
The Elbow grain elevator, 2022
The Elbow grain elevator, 2022Graham Purse, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Main Street, Elbow, about 1910
Main Street, Elbow, about 1910Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC014668
Main Street, Elbow, about 1912
Main Street, Elbow, about 1912Peel’s Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta Library, PC042449

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