The southeast is looking at an above-average Christmas this year as warm air is expected to stick around the region over the holidays.
Temperatures have been rising since the below-average systems pushed through during early December, and now they're looking comfortable headed into the holidays.
Environment Canada Meteorologist Dan Fulton talks about the incoming warm weather.
"That keeps pushing eastward across the prairies, so Estevan and southeastern Saskatchewan get quite well into the warm air and the plus one for Wednesday for Christmas day that'll be kind of the peak of the warm air, but it really doesn't cool off that much. Even looking after that, we're looking at highs of kind of around -5 to -2, which is quite a bit warmer than the normal highs of -8 for this time of year."
The southeast does have some experience with warm weather as Fulton says that December is usually a warmer month of winter.
"The last one was warm, I remember, and then in the past, there's certainly been some pretty cold ones also, so it happens. If you get the sustained winds coming from the West enough to kind of bring that the warmer Pacific air across the prairies, it often will push the cold Arctic air out of the way."
"It does happen around Christmas quite often, just because once you get into January, it's a little bit rarer because the cold air is a bit more entrenched over the prairies for January. So yeah, it's not new, it's happened before, but it's kind of hit and miss around Christmas time, I guess."
Fulton adds that people should be cautious on roads over the Christmas season as some fog is still in the forecast and slippery roads may form due to the warmer weather.