SASKATOON -- As Saskatchewan experiences severe heat and dryness, CTV News spoke to John Pomeroy, the Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change and director of the Global Water Futures Program at the University of Saskatchewan, to learn what's behind it. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. To what extent can we quantify how dry and how hot it has been compared to historical averages? In Saskatchewan, of course, we've broken records many times this summer, and probably will a few more times. The dryness, it's not the driest year ever. But it's the extensiveness of the dryness. It was quite severe early in the growing season. And then now, the combination with drought, makes it a very exceptional year, and I think we're looking at something worse than the early 2000s, maybe as bad as 1988 or even 1961.