Central Alberta will likely see a few more centimetres of snow before warmer weather arrives this weekend.
Justin Shelly is a meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.
"We're still going to be in a relatively unsettled pattern," he explained. "We are going to see a continued risk of some scattered flurries through the week, with a more pronounced risk of snow Tuesday night into Wednesday."
He notes the Red Deer area could see upwards of five centimetres during that time. The high for Monday is plus four and plus nine for Tuesday. Wednesday will see a high of plus two with Thursday a degree warmer at plus three.
The normal daytime high for this time of year is plus eight. The average overnight low is minus five.
Conditions will start to improve heading toward the weekend when an upper ridge of high pressure moves into the region.
"That pattern will bring us temperatures well above zero, well above average too for the most part over Alberta and those central regions will likely see temperatures into the low- to mid-teens during the day."
The warmer weather is expected to stick around for most of next week.
Preliminary stats from Environment Canada show that March was the 26th warmest on record for the Red Deer region, with a monthly mean temperature of minus 2.4 degrees compared to the average of -4.6.
March received just over 40 per cent of normal precipitation with 8.1 mm compared to the average of 19.3 mm.
Red Deer recorded the third driest winter (Dec - Feb) in 103 years with 18.8 mm compared to the average of 42.3 mm.
Shelley notes that Banff recorded its driest winter on record.
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