With the beginning of summer less than a month away, the gradual warm up in temperatures is expected to continue.

This week average high will hover around the 21-degree mark, the same as normal highs for this time of year.

"There is no real movement of air (for the time being)," said John Paul Cragg, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist for Environment Canada. "We just have an air mass that's just sitting overtop of Saskatchewan that won't be moving out quickly. In that air mass, we are looking at the typical temperatures for this time of year."

The typical weather for southwest Saskatchewan will continue for the majority of the short work week with sunshine being a focal point of the forecast.

"With the sunny skies we will get the big bump in temperatures that will be cresting in the afternoon," Cragg said Friday afternoon. "Temperatures will be dipping off quite a bit overnight, thanks to all the radiation escaping from the earth in the overnight period."

In the latter part of the week, Environment Canada is currently predicting a chance of showers, something farmers in the southern part of the province would welcome.

"There doesn't look like any big rainfalls on the way," he added. "But there could be some very localized shower that often happens in Saskatchewan, where one field could get 15 millimetres of rain and the field beside them could see absolutely nothing. It's that typical convective weather we see in the summer but we're seeing it here in May."

Weather models for the next couple weeks according to Cragg are showing seasonal conditions with no major warm up or cool downs expected, coupled with minimal precipitation.