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Spring Can Give Us Some Heavy Snow

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With spring starting to make itself felt across the region and all the talk about the deep snow and flood potential, I thought I would bring up what could be an alarming weather fact: some of our heaviest snowfalls occur during the spring! I thought I would dig back into the weather records and share
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Weekly weather map – for Mar. 17, 2011

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
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Forecast – for Mar. 17, 2011

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The weather pattern looks as if it will continue to be fairly active during this forecast period. After seeing a rather strong area of low pressure push through southern and central regions late last week, which luckily brought more wind than snow, it looks like another low will move through during the middle of this
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Spring Flooding: The Dice Are Loaded

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It seems you can’t listen to a conversation lately that doesn’t at some point move to the topic of spring flooding. The latest flood forecast for southern Manitoba indicates a high potential for flooding in pretty much all regions. If we continue to have favourable weather, which means little to no snow or rain over
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South Africa Assists Flood-And Drought-Hit Farmers

South Africa has allocated 750 million rand ($108 million) to assist farmers affected by floods and drought in some parts of the country, state-owned Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) said March 1. IDC said in a statement 250 million rand would be allocated via financial provider Land Bank for primary agriculture, and 500 million rand would
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Winter Has Finally Come To An End

It’s hard to believe that another winter has come and gone, at least from a meteorological point of view. I know in our part of the world winter starts sometime in November and usually lasts until late March or early April, but according to most meteorologists (weather people) winter is simply the period of time
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China Drought Area Shrinks Fast

The wheat acreage affected by a drought in eight Chinese provinces has fallen by two-thirds since Feb. 8 to 2.52 million hectares, the Ministry of Water Resources said in a statement on its website on Monday. That means the drought area has more than halved since last Thursday, when it was 5.71 million hectares, according
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Split In Long-Range Forecasts

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Another month has gone by and we are either about to enter spring or we have another month of winter left. As usual for the end of the month, we’ll take a look back at February’s weather and then peer ahead to see if we will see an early arrival of spring or if winter
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Weekly Weather Map – for Feb. 24, 2011

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
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Forecast – for Feb. 24, 2011

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Iguess if we had to make a choice between cold, dry weather and warm, wet weather, I think most of us right now would choose the cold and dry weather. A week ago, it was looking like the last part of February and the beginning of March was going to be fairly active, with plenty

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