Another month has come and gone and 2013 is quickly coming to an end. While it is a little too soon to make a summary of this past year’s weather, it’s time to see how November’s numbers added up. November started off fairly nice, with daytime highs pushing the 10 C mark in the first
A cold and snowy month ahead?
We ride the temperature roller-coaster
By the time you read this forecast, we’ve either just dodged a big winter storm to our south or are just starting to dig ourselves out of it! The weather models have been pretty consistent with bringing a strong, slow-moving storm system across the northern U.S. during the middle of this week. Whether this system
All I want for Christmas is a weather station
Each year as we start to get ready for Christmas, I like to do an article or two about different weather gadgets that the weather enthusiast you know might just like. As usual, I will look at different price points, but this year I think I’ll try to stick a little closer to home, by
What are the odds for big snowfalls?
As we’ve been learning over the years, certain weather-related questions sound simple enough, but when you actually start to look at the question, it becomes tougher to figure out. Take trying to figure out when winter actually begins: the tough part is how to define just what constitutes the start of winter. Should it be
Warm and dry or cold and snowy winter?
In the last issue I promised we would take a look at the long-range winter forecasts, but before we do that I have to take a moment to discuss Typhoon Haiyan, or rather, Super Typhoon Haiyan, that hit the Philippines last week. First of all, just for clarification, a typhoon is the same thing as
Warm and dry or cold and snowy November?
At the end of September we looked back at what was a pretty darned nice month! At the time I compared this September to the one in 2009, then hoped that we wouldn’t follow 2009 with a really cold October. Well, it turns out October 2013 wasn’t that cold, but it wasn’t that warm either.
A detailed look at the fifth IPCC report
Acouple of issues ago, I began to look at the latest release by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In that issue I looked at just what the report is, who creates it, and how it is put together and reviewed before being released. I then began to explore the first key pieces of
Lake-effect snows are often the first of the season
With parts of southern and central Manitoba seeing their first flakes of snow last weekend, I thought it would be a good time to begin a look at the topic of snow. The snow last weekend came thanks to the first Alberta Clipper of the year, which brought upwards of five cm of snow to
Just what is Indian summer?
Western Manitoba was once again hit with significant rains late last week as a strong but luckily fast-moving Colorado low lifted almost due north through this region, bringing some heavy rain and thunderstorms. The table shows some of the rainfall totals as compiled by Environment Canada. While the low did bring significant rains to this
Extremely likely warming is human-caused, panel says
I have to start this article off with a bit of a correction. In the article I wrote a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that the Northwest Passage was not open this year. What I should have said was that the Northwest Passage was not ice free this year. According to the National Snow