The Energy City recently came out of unprecedented amounts of snowfall for December, and extremely low wind chills. Today, however, records may begin to be set in the completely opposite direction.

Environment Canada Regional Meteorologist John-Paul Cragg says that the highs expected for today and the next few days may be the warmest in almost 100 years.

"If it gets up to 5 degrees, it will be a one-day record in Estevan. The old record for January 18th is 4.4 degrees, and that was set back in 1923."

He mentions, however, that this is only notable for this date, and history shows warmer highs for the first 30 days of the year.

"If you look at the overall record for the month of January in Estevan,  it's actually 11.4 degrees, and that was back on January 11, 1987."

Cragg also makes note of the fact that a thaw always occurs near the end of the first month of the year.

"It's called the Bonspiel thaw. Instead of cold arctic air flowing into the province, we get a blast of Pacific air that comes over the mountains, infiltrates the prairies, and really warms things up."

 He concludes by adding that we can possibly expect to see more records broken this week as the temperatures will hang above zero until Saturday and Sunday.