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Aerial view of a wildfire about 20 km north of Valhalla Centre in northwestern Alberta on June 4, 2023. (Alberta Wildfire photo)
Weather

Prairie Forecast Update: Forecast pretty much on track

Update issued June 4, covering June 4-7, 2023

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The heat and humidity moved into a large portion of the Canadian Prairies late last week and over the weekend as the previous general forecast played out pretty close to what the weather models predicted. There is not much change in the forecast for the next three days. The heat and humidity will continue across
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News, Weather

Don’t forget about heat safety

Having that water bottle on hand might not be a terrible idea on days where the humidex rises

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Summer temperatures have been a long time coming, but now that they’re here, provincial health officials are reminding Manitobans to keep the risks of too much heat in mind. The warning is particularly relevant for farmers who work long hours outside. “High temperatures and humidity levels early in the summer may have a greater health
Forecast probability of above- or below-normal temperatures for the period from May 29 to June 26, 2023. Map issued May 25, 2023. (Map: Environment Canada)
Weather

A hot, dry Prairie June ahead

El Nino pattern could arrive

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MarketsFarm — June is expected to see a continuation of the hot and dry weather most of the Canadian Prairies has experienced in May, according to Scott Kehler, chief scientist for Weatherlogics. “It looks like late spring/early summer is pretty hot across almost all of Western Canada. The Prairies are all above normal [temperature-wise],” Kehler
Smoke rises from a wildfire southeast of Fort Nelson in northeastern B.C. on May 27, 2023.
Crops, Weather

Prairie Forecast Update: A few small tweaks

Forecast issued May 28, covering the period from May 29 to 31

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The weather regime across southern and central Canada is currently being dominated by a large sprawling surface high over eastern regions with a slowly digging trough of low pressure over the West Coast. The flows around these two features have been producing warm summer-like conditions across the eastern Prairies with slightly cooler conditions as you
Preproduction 2023 models of Ford’s F-series Super Duty pickup trucks. (Ford.com)
Weather

Ford to keep AM radio, CEO says

Amid rising concerns, Canada's premier automaker will not drop AM

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Ford Motor Co. has gone back on its plan to phase AM radio out of its vehicles. Ford CEO Jim Farley made the announcement Tuesday via Twitter, after company officials said last month that AM would be dropped from new non-commercial vehicles. “After speaking with policy leaders about the importance of AM broadcast radio as
A Massey Ferguson MF 5S series tractor. (Agcocorp.com)
Crops

Agco, Kubota sign onto U.S. right-to-repair pledge

Firms join Deere, CNH in pacts with Farm Bureau

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Two more major ag equipment makers have signed onto a framework that would grant farmers and independent repair shops in the United States reasonable access to the means to repair their machines. The Washington, D.C.-based American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) on Monday announced it had reached memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with equipment firms Agco and
Smoke rises from the southeast side of a wildfire being tackled by helicopters near Shining Bank, Alta., about 200 km west of Edmonton, on May 19, 2023. (Photo: Alberta Wildfire/Handout via Reuters)
Weather

Prairie Forecast Update: A few small tweaks

Update issued May 21, 2023, covering May 21-24, 2023

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The weather models are continuing to do a good job with the short- to medium-range forecasts, but there have been a couple of small changes that have been slowly working into the forecast. Weak troughing off the West Coast is still forecasted to kick off the development of a leeside low in Alberta. This low
File photo of a storm cloud from the southwestern end of Lake Winnipeg at Matlock, Man. (IanChrisGraham/iStock/Getty Images Plus)
Crops, Weather

More than half of world’s large lakes drying up, study finds

Gains in Great Lakes, Lake Winnipeg come from runoff, rainfall

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London | Reuters — More than half of the world’s large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying concerns about water for agriculture, hydropower and human consumption, a study published on Thursday found. A team of international researchers reported that some of the world’s most important freshwater

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