Temperatures are expected to soar in the Foothills this week, for a few days at least.

Environment Canada Meteorologist Brian Proctor says we are on track to see the warmest temperatures of the year, with daytime highs that could hit 27 by Friday.

But the upper ridge starts to move east by the end of the week and that will likely mean the return of cooler and wetter weather for the weekend.

"If we start looking at this week, we're going to make people looking for warmer temperatures and drier weather substantially happier, I think," Proctor says. "We have an upper ridge that's starting to build over western North America. It looks like it's going to start building over the BC/Alberta border during the Wednesday to Thursday time frame and amplifying through the end of the work week.

"We're looking for substantially increasing warm temperatures over the next three to four days before gradually cooling off as we move into the weekend, unfortunately."

The warmer weather comes after an April that saw two times the normal level of precipitation recorded at the Calgary International Airport. Proctor says an average of 26.9 millimetres of precipitation normally falls during the month of April, but this year 56.4 millimetres were recorded.

Although Saturday's high is expected to be 22, temperatures take a dip Sunday with a forecast high of 10 and a 60 per cent chance of rain.

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