Last week’s weather played out pretty much as expected, with only the light snow or freezing drizzle over the weekend being a bit of surprise. For those of you who are tired of the cold weather, then this forecast will make you happy. If you are looking for more moisture, it looks like you will
Issued: Monday, January 11, 2010 Covering: January 13 –January 20
The Changing Arctic –Part 1
Ihinted at our next topic in the last article, and it is about the melting of the Arctic sea ice. I, along with a large number of weather scientists, agree that this is rapidly becoming the biggest weather story of our time. So I am going to take the next few articles to explore this
Cold And Hot In 2009
The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He has taught climate and weather classes at the U of W, and is a guest climate expert on CJOB’s morning show with Larry Updike. Daniel runs a computerized weather station
Issued: Monday, January 4, 2010 Covering: January 6 –January 13
Arctic high pressure will be the main weather maker for this forecast period, which will result in mostly clear skies and cold temperatures – at least for a while. Another strong arctic high will be pushing southward during this forecast period and should be over our region on Thursday and Friday. The good news is
Issued: Monday, December 21, 2009 Covering: December 23 –December 30
The main weather maker over Christmas will be a large slow-moving storm system that will develop over the south-central U. S. early this week and then move northeastwards to lie over the Great Lakes by the weekend. Exactly how strong this system will get or the exact track it will take is still up in
No Weather Records This Holiday Season
Table 1. Holiday averages Dec. 24-26 Dec. 31-Jan. 1 Average high -10C -12C Average low -20C -22C Average mean -15C -17C Table 2. Historic data for Winnipeg, Brandon and Dauphin Date 24 25 26 31 1 24 Record max (C) 3.9 5.4 2.8 2.8 4.4 4.4 25 26 31 1 8.3 24 25 7.2 26
Issued: Monday, December 14, 2009 Covering: December 16 –December 23
For those of you wishing for more snow, this forecast will not make you very happy. If you are wishing that these cold temperatures would go away and our El Nińo winter would return, you might have something to smile about. Confidence in this forecast is not that high as the weather models have been
Still Looking At An El Niño Winter?
Figure 1 Last issue, I said that we would take a break from El Nińo and take our yearly look at Christmas weather, but I just realized that there is still one more issue before Christmas, so let’s finish up our El Nińo discussion. In the previous articles we discussed how the “normal” flow across
Cold And Warm Water Affects Our Weather
Before I dive back into our discussion about El Nińo, did anyone really think we would get through this winter without seeing regular good old-fashioned cold weather? I think we all knew that the amazing period of mild weather would eventually come to an end, but you know, I secretly think there are a lot
Issued: Monday, December 7, 2009 Covering: December 9 –December 16
Last week’s forecast played out not too badly. We did see an Alberta Clipper during the first half of the week. The clipper did move a little further south than originally expected, bringing the season’s first significant snow to extreme southern areas. The Alberta Clipper forecasted to graze southwestern Manitoba over the weekend did form