Southwestern Saskatchewan is in store for a brief warm-up the next few days.

Beginning this afternoon and running until tomorrow evening, Environment Canada is expecting the temperature in the Swift Current area to remain above the freezing mark.

The momentary warming is due to a low-pressure system moving into the prairies from the west coast of British Columbia, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada Meteorologist Terri Lang.

"Ahead of it, it's going to bring up some really mild air and the mild air will keep pouring in over the next two days," she said. "It doesn't look like the temperature will even drop below freezing overnight, we'll see those southwesterly winds kick in, and those are the chinook, the warm winds, the snow melters. And tomorrow we're looking at highs even close to plus 6 C, so it will start eating away at that snowpack."

The melting snow might clear some roadways or sidewalks after Swift Current received about 52 centimetres of snow on November 8 and 9, according to an Environment Canada volunteer observation.

By Wednesday evening average temperatures will return to the area, as Environment Canada is calling for a nighttime low of -7 C, with Swift Current's 30-year average temperature overnight sitting at -10 C.

"When that temperature starts to drop in the evening time and in the overnight and if you get any snow, that melting snow is going to freeze and it's probably going to create some black ice on the highways," she said. "If you get some snow on top of that it's just going to exacerbate it."