The blistering hot weather has returned to southwest Saskatchewan and won't be leaving anytime soon.

Over the Canada Day long weekend, a warm weather system shifted over the prairies, bring with it temperatures in high-20's to low-30's.

"It's basically because we have this upper weather pattern that is settling in that isn't really changing much," said Meteorologist with Environment Canada Robyn Dyck. "Because of that we do have that heat and humidity that's going to be accumulating and just sitting over the province, so we don't see that changing until the end of next weekend."

Thursday and Friday's temperatures are expected to reach the high-20's to low-30's with sunshine. The warm weather trend will continue into the weekend, however, some meteorologists are predicting it warm up, even more, reaching the mid-30's with overnight lows in the high teens.

"We do have some new heating warning criteria for the province," Dyck explained. "We're now looking at two-day heat event, to be putting out heat warnings. The thresholds are 32-degree highs during the day and lows overnight of 16. What we've added is that overnight low, if it's quite high then it doesn't give people to recover from the heat during the day."

She also noted paying attention to your conditions when outside will be key.

"The best thing to do is keep hydrated, so even before you're thirsty make sure you're drinking water," she added. "I would maybe reschedule some things, so scheduling anything for outdoors for the cool parts of the day in the morning and in the evening."

Although the forecast isn't calling for substantial rain during the next two weeks, Dyck also stated there is always a risk of pop-up thunderstorms.