Environment Canada is calling for a mild holiday Monday across the province, following the colder temperatures we saw this week.

G3 Canada's weather and crop specialist Bruce Burnett says El Niño played out pretty much the way they expected this year, with above normal temperatures and below normal precipitation.

"That's a concern because we're starting to get closer to spring, and we'd like to see some moisture to help out in terms of adding to the subsoil moisture levels, which had been reduced by last year's dry conditions in the western part of the Prairies," he says.

Burnett says when it comes to winter cereal crops and the lack of snow cover this year, we're lucky temperatures haven't been cold enough to do extensive damage.