Riley Laychuk's weekend forecast: sunny in the south

Time for a look at your weekend weather forecast. And across southern and most of central Manitoba, a pretty banner weekend in terms of sky conditions. Lots of sunshine, a southerly wind making temperatures pop up above seasonal by almost 10 degrees in some cases, although there is a bit of weather coming into northern Manitoba. So things will be windy through southern Manitoba Saturday into Sunday. There's a weak Alberta clipper, though, pushing to northern Manitoba as we get through Sunday. This particular forecast model indicating the potential as we get into the early morning hours Sunday of some mixed precipitation or some light snow. I think temperatures will stay warm enough that this is a majority rain event for northern Manitoba and not much in the way of accumulation. But there could be some wet flurries mixed into some of that through the early morning hours Sunday. And then we get into some clearing and a big ridge sets in the jet stream. And that is really going to warm temperatures up and keep things nice and sunny as we get into next week. So temperatures through the afternoon, 18s, 19s into western Manitoba, 16s and 17s through the Red River Valley. These temperatures in the west, close to 10 degrees above seasonal for this time of the year. And looking at single digits in northern Manitoba, 9 in Thompson, 6 in Gillam. Temperatures on the warm side again through the day on Sunday, 17 for Winnipeg, 14s and 15s for the west. Winds will shift to more west to northwesterly flow into the day on Sunday. Could see some gusts up to 50 kilometers an hour and temperatures staying warm and a mix of sun and clouds right through the middle of next week.