You may have noticed that the days have been a little bit warmer, well that trend is expected to continue, with some days even reaching above zero temperatures.

James Colangelo, who is a Meteorologist with Environment Canada, says the warm break in January is caused by warm air from the Pacific Ocean moving in over Saskatchewan.

“We’re actually getting a lot of warm air that’s pushing in from the west. Kind of off the west coast of Canada and into the Southwestern U.S., a lot of that warm air is being pushed up. We’re going to be under the influence of an upper high ridge.”

Colangelo adds the higher than average temps will stick around for a while, lasting well into next week.

“We’ll start to see those above zero temperatures on Sunday and it continues through most of the week actually. Highs look to be in that zero to three degree range for a lot of Saskatchewan actually, including Saskatoon. those temperatures will remain, it looks like, until Thursday night into Friday when temperatures start to drop into those minus teen temperatures again.”

While temperatures will be warm, conditions in the northern and eastern part of Saskatchewan could be subject to freezing rain.

“Generally southern Saskatchewan will be fairly dry with this warm dry air coming in from the west. There may be some precipitation kind of rounding the north side of that warm air that may be pushing into northern and eastern Saskatchewan, potentially some freezing rain maybe next week, although the risk is quite low at the moment.”

Colangelo says the warm temperatures will stretch all the way from the West Coast to Manitoba.