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Frost-free season stretches out for most of Manitoba

The 2025 growing season was longer than average for most of the Prairies, despite an early brush with freezing temperatures in early September

The length of the frost-free season right across the Prairies for 2025 turned out to be longer than average, weather expert Daniel Bezte reports.



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Will Manitoba’s warm fall linger?

Weather data confirms a mild start to autumn, but forecasts farther into fall 2025 are mixed for Manitoba

Weather data confirms a mild start to autumn, but forecasts farther into fall 2025 are mixed for Manitoba.



Cereals are swathed north of Darlingford Sept. 1. PHOTO: ALEXIS STOCKFORD

Why drying crops in the fall is so tough

Shorter days, temperature, humidity and wind are some of the fall weather factors that play into whether or not that crop dries down

Shorter days, temperature, humidity and wind are some of the fall weather factors that play into whether or not that crop dries down

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Prairie forecast: Looks like summer weather

Highlights: We appear to be in a fairly predictable weather pattern as the overall weather picture has been pretty good. We saw upper-level ridging last week bring average to above average temperatures across the Prairies. The forecasted area of low pressure over the eastern Prairies materialized as forecasted. As often typical with upper-level lows, the


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Does fall predict winter?

More bits of weather folklore, from loon calls to when the geese and herons migrate south, and whether they actually do predict the winter weather to come

More bits of weather folklore, from loon calls to when the geese and herons migrate south, and whether they actually do predict winter weather to come.

Photo: Geralyn Wichers

Prairie forecast: Warm, dry west; warm, unsettled east

Highlights Summary Last week’s forecast did well considering the unusually blocking pattern that developed. An area of low pressure did develop as expected over the west-central U.S. It tried to push northwards and eastwards but was kept mostly in place by a strong ridge of high pressure over the central and eastern Prairies. The models


Ice crystals and snow whipped up by winter winds catch the sun near Russell, Man.

Mythbusting the folklore of winter forecasts

Can Manitoba’s fall really predict future winter weather? From early leaf drop to when the birds leave, there are plenty of old sayings, but how much fact is there behind the folklore?

Can Manitoba’s fall really predict future winter weather? From early leaf drop to when the birds leave, there are plenty of old sayings, but how much fact is there behind the folklore?

The June 20-22 rain will ensure that most producers harvest a crop in 2025.

More rainfall for Prairie farmers

As the atmosphere warms, farmers on the Canadian Prairies could see more heavy rainfalls

Heavy rain may become more common as the climate on the Canadian Prairies makes more of the storm types that produce it.