The winter-like weather that's invaded southwestern Saskatchewan will be put on temporary hold for the foreseeable future.

After experiencing well-below average temperatures for the past 10 days plus, Swift Current and area will return to seasonal weather for at least the next week.

According to Environment Canada for the first time in 11 days, today's daytime high is expected to be above the freezing mark at plus 11 C and the remainder of the week will follow the warmer pattern with highs ranging from 6-17 C.

Terri Lang, a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said the sudden warm-up is a result of movement in the jet stream.

"It's shifting now a little to the north so that's allowing the much milder air to flood in," she said. "We would actually call these chinook conditions just because it has been so cold and now these mild westerly-southwesterly winds are bringing in much milder air than what we've seen. We've seen some very cold temperatures, record-breaking temperatures for the last week or so."

Swift Current's 30-year temperature average for late October has the day time high at 7 C, a mark that hasn't been hit since October 13. The nighttime average low is -3 C and that number hasn't been reached since the night of October 16.

"We've been far below seasonal, like way below seasonal for almost two weeks now," she said. "The temperatures that we're seeing (looking ahead), the pattern that we're seeing is near average to above-average temperatures for like I said 7-10 days."

Since October 17 the night time temperature has been well below average ranging from -11 C to -18 C but for the next week is expected to fluctuate between 0 C and - 5 C.