Iguess if we had to make a choice between cold, dry weather and warm, wet weather, I think most of us right now would choose the cold and dry weather. A week ago, it was looking like the last part of February and the beginning of March was going to be fairly active, with plenty of chances for snow. It is now looking like arctic air is going to win out for the most part and while that means cold weather, it also means that most of the snow should stay away.
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A large area of high pressure is forecasted to drop southwards from northwestern Canada during this week. The centre of this high looks as if it will stay well to our west, which means the coldest air will stay out west. For us we should see mainly sunny skies all week with high temperatures in the -14 C to -18 C range and overnight lows in the -24 C to -28 C range.
By late in the weekend the high will be to our south and will have weakened. To our north, low pressure will be tracking through and these two features will help to moderate our temperatures a little bit.
During the first half of next week another area of arctic high pressure will begin to push southwards following a similar path to this week’s high. The big question will be whether it will be strong enough and move quick enough to keep the next storm system well south of us. Currently the weather models are keeping pretty much all the precipitation next week well to our south.
Looking ahead a little further the models are trending towards keeping the cold high pressure in place over Western Canada right through into the following weekend.
Usual temperature range for this period: Highs:-14 to -1 CLows:-27 to -10 C
