Memories of February 2019 may bring a chill to the bone, as last year we sat at temperatures well below normal for the entire month.

While we may be used to the cold after this last January, it looks like heading into February we should be sitting around much more normal temperatures.

Sara Hoffman with Environment Canada talked about last year's chilly start to the year, where many communities broke cold-weather records.

"Across the prairies, February 2019 was certainly the coldest in recent memory, that went into Alberta and Manitoba as well. It was a February that many of us won't soon forget."

This year is looking not nearly as bad however, with a high of +10 being forecast for Saturday. Hoffman however, says we shouldn't get too used to the unseasonably warm weather.

"We're expecting a return to normal temperatures and that should persist into next week. Looking ahead at our long-range models, we are expecting close to normal temperatures for February in that -10 range."

"February will start with very near-normal temperatures. We're forecasting an Alberta low to move through the central portion of the province bringing a return to near-normal temperatures from the above-normal temperatures."

The Alberta low is expected to bring high winds for the weekend as well, gusting as high as 80 km/h heading into Saturday evening according to Environment Canada.

While Hoffman says the long-range models project temperatures and precipitation to be near normal for February, predicting the weather for the whole month is anything but certain.

"Models that go out weeks or months in advance are less accurate, just because of tiny mistakes in initialization which get amplified the further out you go. So our Day 1, 2 forecasts are the most accurate, our seven days, we can have some accuracy. Anything further than that, you have to take everything with a bit of a grain of salt."

Hoffman added that it's still good to prepare for another cold-air outbreak by making sure the house, car, and family is ready for a stretch of below-normal temperatures.