A brief glimpse of warm summer weather will hit the southwest corner of the province over the next few days.

Beginning today, the mercury will rise to an all-time high for the calendar year.

"What we have (about to hit the southwest) is developing low to the west that's going to help draw up air from down near the Gulf of Mexico, all the way up into Saskatchewan and it's going to bring really warm temperatures with it," said John Paul Cragg, Warning Preparedness Meteorologist for Environment Canada.

Thursday and Friday's temperatures are expected to reach the mid-20's with sunshine. The warm weather trend will continue into the weekend, however, there is some uncertainty as to how warm it will be and what the conditions will be like.

"This is the case for the weekend, is there will be a low-pressure system moving across Saskatchewan," Cragg said. "Saturday or Sunday will drop off temperatures because of both rain and the fact that more northerly winds will be coming in on the backside of that low-pressure system. The temperature over the weekend will have everything to do with the timing of that low and how much precipitation there is with that low."

Even with this drastic warm up in temperatures, Cragg advised summer is still quite far away.

"There is still cold air up in the arctic that can come streaming back down into Saskatchewan and cool thing off in a hurry," he said. "We might not see any snow moving through May, but don't expect temperatures to stay in the mid-20's for the rest of the month, we're still going to see some fluctuation throughout the month. Just based on where we live and the fact that air is still cold up north."

Environment Canada is currently predicting it to be 30 degrees on Saturday, which would potentially break a record, but Cragg also noted that 30 degrees is the maximum high temperature it could reach on that day.