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
Textbook Example Of Indian Summer
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.
October And Winter Weather Outlooks
In a previous issue we discussed what type of winter we might expect, given the current La Nińa conditions over the Pacific Ocean. Now that winter is just around the bend, climatologically speaking, I thought we should revisit our previous La Nińa winter forecast and see just what the latest and greatest long-range forecasters are
Forecast – for Sep. 30, 2010
As September comes to an end and we enter the first true full month of fall, it looks like Mother Nature will be giving us a little bit of payback. After what was for most of us a cool and wet September, it looks like October will start off sunny and warm. A ridge of
When Should We Normally Expect Fall Frost?
It’s a little later than usual for me to talk about fall frost, as a good portion of agricultural Manitoba has already experienced some frost, but after receiving a few emails inquiring about this topic I felt there’s still time to touch on it. The first question I’m usually asked about fall frost is when
Forecast – for Sep. 23, 2010
After an unsettled start to the week it looks like the weather will start to settle down a little bit. Low pressure will have brought clouds and showers to pretty much all of agricultural Manitoba by Wednesday. Behind this low, high pressure should begin to build in, bringing sunny skies on Thursday. We will then
Cold, Snowy Winter Or Warm And Dry – for Sep. 23, 2010
Last issue we took a quick look at the atmospheric and oceanic phenomenon know as La Nińa, or, as we pointed out last issue, the anti-El Nińo. Now that we have a bit of an understanding of La Nińa let’s take a look back and see what kind of winters we’ve had the last few
Forecast – for Sep. 16, 2010
Acouple of things look to be fairly certain during this forecast period. The first is that we will likely continue to see temperatures near the low end of the usual temperature range for this time of the year. Secondly, there appears to be a very strong chance that a large portion of agricultural Manitoba will
Taking A Look At La Niña – for Sep. 16, 2010
As summer comes to an end the most common question I have received is about what we should expect the coming winter to be like. Long-range forecasting is tough at the best of times, and most forecasts beyond 30 days are usually not more statistically correct than simply doing a coin toss, but – there
Cool, Wet September Ahead? – for Sep. 9, 2010
Another August has come and gone and from a weather point of view I think we can label this month as “variable” or “the month of change.” If we look strictly at the numbers for the month, both Winnipeg and Dauphin had a slightly warmer-than-average month. Winnipeg had a mean monthly temperature of 18.9 C,