Hail pelted North Battleford for 40 minutes on Thursday afternoon. (Submitted by Clarence Briand)The summer of 2010 may be remembered as the summer of wild weather in Saskatchewan, and the season is not even half over.

Officials said Friday that 114 communities, including towns, villages and rural municipalities, have made disaster declarations and would be seeking some assistance to repair damaged infrastructure.

"This has pushed our resources to the limit," Duane McKay, the province's fire commissioner and director of public safety, said Friday during a media briefing about the latest severe weather event.

More than 125 homes were flooded in North Battleford Thursday afternoon.

McKay said while there have been forest fires and flooding in other years, 2010 is seeing an unprecedented number of events.

"When you start adding up all the events and the compressed time ... this is remarkable," he said.

McKay added that, so far, officials are coping, but added the system is being stressed.

"Working at this for a long period of time does have an impact," he said.

The severe weather began in April with an unusually prolonged rainy period that flooded thousands of hectares of farmland.

On June 18, storm waters flooded Maple Creek and washed out a section of the Trans-Canada Highway.

Not long after that, Saskatoon experienced a deluge of 85 millimetres of rain in less than three hours.

Yorkton was next on July 1, Canada Day, when water overwhelmed streets and flooded hundreds of basements.

An aerial view of flooded areas north of Yorkton, one week after the area was overwhelmed with water. (Troy Fleece/Canadian Press)

On July 2, the Kawacatoose First Nation was torn apart by a tornado and although nobody was injured, the community is facing an enormous task to rebuild severely damaged homes.

There was no escaping to the cottage, either. Good Spirit Lake, near Yorkton, has been causing havoc on beachfront properties.

And on Thursday, North Battleford endured a 40-minute long hailstorm, followed by intense rain.

Officials said 11 families sought emergency shelter on Thursday night. They were forced from basement suites or homes too damaged to be occupied. The families were put up in hotels.

"There have been a lot of unexpected emergencies this spring and summer throughout the province," Laura Beddome, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Red Cross, told CBC News Friday. Red Cross workers were in North Battleford helping with the emergency.

The provincial government has already delivered $3.5 million in disaster relief to communities and individuals with uninsurable losses.

Millions more will be needed to repair damaged infrastructure, such as roads, bridges and sewer systems.

Meteorologists say it's not the end of the severe weather, noting that the long-range forecast for the rest of the summer calls for above normal precipitation and above normal temperatures.

That combination is a perfect mix to generate storms.