Environment Canada is taking a look back at the last system which plunged the southeast into record lows.
The system is headed out of Canada with the extreme cold warning which was placed on the area over a week ago finally being lifted.
Andy Yun, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, says that southeast communities had a lot of records broken over the last while.
"Some of the records I was looking at, digging back for Estevan and Weyburn area were basically for record low minimum temperatures overnight. It really seems like the super cold air dug into southern Saskatchewan, probably starting on about February 17th or so. So yeah, starting about the 17th or so, every day, every morning, you were setting new records for minimum temperatures, and certainly this morning is no exception."
Just this morning, Weyburn broke a temperature record with a -36 temperature which was previously set in 2013, with Estevan seeing -38 temperatures which broke a record set in 1910.
Yun says that the wind that we got over the week also spiked concerns over the extreme cold system, and may keep the air from feeling warm for a while.
"Anytime temperatures were way, way below freezing, the wind is gonna make it feel cooler out there. That's one of the unfortunate things with the warm air coming across, it is going to be propelled by some stronger winds. Even with the temperatures, climb up to say -10 or so, if it's windy enough in the afternoon, it's still gonna feel pretty chilly."
It wasn't just cold for a Saskatchewan winter, as some days even had the Estevan area ranked among the coldest places on Earth.
Now that's in the rearview for the southeast, but Yun isn't sure we're seeing spring creep in just yet.
"It's only February in the prairies and I never say winter is over because I remember a few heavy June snowstorms still coming through and that's technically supposed to be spring going into summer. So I can't say winter is totally over."
"Longer range models are expecting that this milder spell will continue through to the end of February anyway, and whether it continues in March, we'll just have to see. Because you know it's the prairies, weather can change at any time, especially the late winter period going into spring."
Yun reminds people to keep an eye on the forecast, especially as we move into the spring.