Forecast – for Feb. 10, 2011

It looks like we are going to stay on the lucky or good side of the battle between cold and warm air for most, if not all, of this forecast period. Considering last week’s weather I am going to lean toward the warmer forecast model for this period – let’s hope it’s right! The models

Forecast – for Jan. 20, 2011

The overall weather pattern over our part of the world has been acting a little strange over the last couple of weeks. While the general pattern hasn’t been unusual, it hasn’t been behaving in the usual way. Take the last couple of weeks. Normally when a strong arctic high begins building to our northwest, it


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

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


Forecast – for Sep. 2, 2010

There definitely seems to be a shift going on in our overall weather pattern as the atmosphere begins to take on a fall-like pattern. Currently it doesn’t look as though this September will see the amazing weather that we saw last year. By mid-week, the large area of low pressure that affected much of southern

Forecast – for Aug. 19, 2010

Well, I don’t think we’ll have to worry about summer coming to an end and fall moving in just yet. After a little taste of fall over the weekend, it looks like summer will move back in by this weekend, and if the models hold true we should see summer- like conditions right through to


Forecast – for Aug. 12, 2010

The Weather Vane is prepared by Daniel Bezte, a teacher by profession with a BA (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the University of Winnipeg. Daniel has taught university-level classes in climate and weather and currently operates a computerized weather station at his home near Birds Hill Park, on 10 acres he plans to