The new year is bringing with it a new weather system, warming up southwest Saskatchewan.

Recently the southwest corner has been dealing with an arctic ridge bringing in colder weather, but a change in the wind may be bringing positive daytime highs this week.

Robyn Dyck, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, explained what was causing the possibility of warm weather.

"The next system, we basically have that ridge move east, we do have a switch from that northerly wind to westerly's, so that will flood in some warmer air for Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday."

Swift Current's seasonal high is minus-nine degrees, and Dyck said that wind from the Pacific Ocean would be blown into town, warming the area to around plus-five degrees.

Dyck said that looking forward to next weekend, the above average temperatures would be gone, and we would be back to seasonal temperatures.

"On the backside of that comes the next weekend, so that would be January 5 and 6, it does look like the winds return on the backside of that system, so we kind of get switched to northerly winds and that will bring temperatures down a bit more to that minus 10 range, to normal."

Looking past the weekend, she said that temperatures are looking to sustain at seasonal highs, she stated that when looking that far forward, forecasts can be less accurate.

"The further you look out, it does look like it does look like it does look like it's more just normal, so in that minus single to double-digit temperatures, doesn't look like there are any big systems necessarily on the way at this time."