Issued: Friday, July 31, 2009 Covering: August 5 –August 12

Well, the promise of hot weather last week vanished just like the sunshine as a persistent blocking pattern over North America amplified last week. This allowed the eastern North American low to deepen and kept us under a strong northwest flow. In the flow we saw several smaller lows develop and affect our region. During

Issued: Monday, July 27, 2009 Covering: July 29 –August 5

After getting almost a week of what felt like summer weather, it looks like we are returning back to the same old pattern that has been controlling our weather for what seems like forever. Here is the way the pattern is shaping up. There is a persistent area of low pressure over northeastern North America


Issued: Monday, July 6, 2009 Covering: July 8 –July 15

It looks like we will have a predominately west to northwesterly flow across agricultural Manitoba during this forecast period. The upper level pattern has a large area of low pressure over northeastern Canada with a ridge of high pressure over the far western states. The flow in the upper atmosphere is riding over the western

Issued: Monday, June 22, 2009 Covering: June 24 –July 1

We all knew that summer would eventually get here, but I don’t think anyone would have guessed that she would make such a grand entrance! Looking ahead to the next seven to 10 days, it looks like the early summer heat wave will be sticking around. Sunshine and hot weather will dominate the forecast region


Most Of The World Has Predictable Weather

Our little break from weather school seems to have stretched out for over a month now. Well, Reading Week (or should I say “Month?”) is over and it’s time to get back to work! In our last lesson we continued our look at atmospheric circulation, and in particular, we built upon our general model of

Issued: Monday, February 23, 2009 Covering: February 25 –March 4

Last week we talked about arctic high pressure dominating the weather and it looks like the same thing will happen during this forecast period, at least during the first half. It is currently looking like a strong area of arctic high pressure will build southwards over Western Canada during this week. This region of high



General atmospheric circulation

After the last couple of weather school lessons on wind, we now have a basic understanding of what drives our winds. With this knowledge we are now ready to take this information and start piecing together the bigger picture of global winds, or what is referred to as general atmospheric circulation. We now know that