Every year around this time I get a lot of email asking when we should expect the first snowfall, or when do I expect winter will begin? Some regions of agricultural Manitoba have already seen their first snowfall, but the warm weather we’ve been experiencing has long since removed any traces of that. So, while
When Should We Expect Winter To Start?
Forecast – for Nov. 4, 2010
Now that the Super Storm of 2010 has finally moved out of our region, it looks like we’ll see some nice late-fall weather move in. Considering the size of the last storm, this period of nice weather is kind of unusual. What I mean by that is that such a large and deep area of
Record-Breaking October
Well, October has now come and gone and weather-wise it was a pretty amazing month. Two main weather stories developed during October. The first was the beautiful warm weather we experienced during the first half of the month. The second was the record-breaking late-fall storm that dumped copious amounts of rain across a large portion
Forecast – for Oct. 28, 2010
It’s always tough to try and create a forecast when the main weather maker is still unfolding. The dominant weather feature to start this forecast period will be the strong area of low pressure moving through Manitoba into Ontario. By Wednesday, the low should be to our east and we should see very strong northerly
Some Of My Favourite Weather Websites
With the fairly quiet weather we’ve been experiencing lately, I thought we could take a little bit of break this week and look at some of my favourite weather-related websites. Some people claim that the Internet creates more problems than it solves, but if you are a weather enthusiast the Internet opens up a world
Forecast – for Oct. 21, 2010
If you’ve been watching the “Chance of precipitation falling as snow” statistic located at the bottom of the forecast each week, you may notice it really begins to jump up now that we are heading toward the end of October. I bring this up because it is starting to look like we may have to
Possible Change In Weather Pattern
I’m going to start off this week’s article with a quick look at global weather records and patterns so far this year. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the first nine months of 2010 have been the warmest ever recorded. If this pattern keeps up, 2010 will go down as the warmest
Textbook Example Of Indian Summer
We have had some nice Indian summers in the past, but the weather we experienced over the last week, and especially over the long weekend, was probably one of the best textbook examples of Indian summer that I have ever seen. A couple of years ago I wrote an article about Indian summer and I
Forecast – for Oct. 14, 2010
Last week’s forecast turned out to be pretty good. If anything, the weather ended up being even nicer than we thought it might be. Temperatures over the long weekend were above the long-term average and the only part of the forecast which was off a bit was that the area of low pressure forecast for
Forecast – for Oct. 7, 2010
It’s looking more and more like October 2010 is going to turn out to be a fairly nice month. If you remember back to last week’s forecast, we were not that confident in the last part of the forecast, which had the current ridge of high pressure breaking down and cool weather moving back in.