For the most part I don’t think anyone could complain about the weather we experienced in September across most of agricultural Manitoba. Most people want to see a warm, dry September that allows late-season crops to mature and, more importantly, lets you get onto the land to bring in the harvest. Well, September 2013 brought
Warm, dry September weather to continue?
Longer-than-average growing season?
As some regions experienced their first fall frost this weekend, I felt it was time to revisit this topic. The first question I am usually asked about fall frost is “When should the different areas of agricultural Manitoba expect to receive their fist fall frost?” To analyze this, we must first determine how frost is
Geography influencing thunderstorms
Breezes off lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba can help build thunderstorms when they wouldn’t develop otherwise
Last week I asked for questions and ideas for different weather articles and I did get several good questions. Just remember this weather page is for you, so once again, feel free to email me any questions or topic ideas that you may have, at [email protected]. The one question that really stood out for me
Hot weather to start — and then what?
Forecast issued Aug. 26 for the period from Aug. 28 to Sept. 4, 2013
It took awhile, but in our part of the world we are now in a heat wave. Luckily for us it’s near the end of summer, so the intensity doesn’t look to be too bad. If you are trying to harvest, the warm/hot, dry weather is probably in your favour, as long as you have
A technical look at lightning
If caught outdoors, you want to be as short as possible and have as little contact with the ground as possible
I was having a hard time coming up with a weather article for this week. (Remember, feel free to email me any questions or topic ideas that you have at [email protected].) As I sat down to write, a line of severe thunderstorms developed and pushed through my region. The storm didn’t have much in the
Warm with a chance of thunderstorms
Forecast for Aug. 21-28, 2013
Temperatures warmed up as predicted over the last forecast period, but the overall weather pattern didn’t quite play out as expected. The upper ridge of high pressure was slower in developing and pushing east. This allowed a few weak upper level systems to zip through southern and central Manitoba last weekend, bringing clouds and triggering
Get ready for a toasty forecast
Forecast issued Aug. 12, 2013, covering the period from Aug. 14 to 21, 2013
Last week’s forecast played out pretty much as expected with the upper low finally moving out of the region last weekend, allowing high pressure to start building in. High pressure will dominate our weather for at least the first half of this forecast period, both at the surface and in the upper atmosphere. A large
Summer weather looks to move back in
Weekly weather forecast for August 7, 2013
The first part of this forecast period is going to feel fairly fall-like, as our weather is dominated by a large and strong upper low. This low has sat over Hudson Bay for the last week or so and has been responsible for our cool weather of late. The weather models show this low will
Just why do weather patterns get stuck?
If you remember back to the last article we started a discussion that was aimed at trying to explain why weather can sometimes get “stuck” in a particular pattern. How sometimes we see weather changes very rapidly and other times it seems that no matter what, the weather just stays the same. After an extremely
Just what is an Omega Block?
The boundary between the cold and warm air is where the majority of our ‘weather’ or storm systems occur
If you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute.” This is probably one of the most used and often true statements made about the weather in our part of the world. We live in a zone that stretches right around the globe, where warm air moving northward battles it out with cold air surging