All I Want For Christmas Is… A Weather Station!

Ithink most people in this part of the world are naturally interested in the weather, but it seems that over the last 10 or so years, that interest in weather and weather-related instruments for the home weather enthusiast has really increased. When I first decided to start observing and recording the weather at home, about

Compensation To Continue For

Manitoba Water Stewardship promises to formalize compensation for property owners who experience summer flooding damage from the Red River Floodway. Currently, people who suffer upstream flooding damage from emergency use of the floodway are compensated under rules governing the facility’s operations. The province says it will embed compensation in law instead of just having it


Forecast – for Nov. 11, 2010

After some near-record-breaking warm weather this past weekend, it looks like more seasonable weather is poised to move in during this forecast period. The question will be whether we’ll remain dry, or will we see snow accompany the cooler conditions? The ridge of high pressure that brought the beautiful weather over the weekend will have

When Should We Expect Winter To Start?

Every year around this time I get a lot of email asking when we should expect the first snowfall, or when do I expect winter will begin? Some regions of agricultural Manitoba have already seen their first snowfall, but the warm weather we’ve been experiencing has long since removed any traces of that. So, while


Forecast – for Nov. 4, 2010

Now that the Super Storm of 2010 has finally moved out of our region, it looks like we’ll see some nice late-fall weather move in. Considering the size of the last storm, this period of nice weather is kind of unusual. What I mean by that is that such a large and deep area of

Record-Breaking October

Well, October has now come and gone and weather-wise it was a pretty amazing month. Two main weather stories developed during October. The first was the beautiful warm weather we experienced during the first half of the month. The second was the record-breaking late-fall storm that dumped copious amounts of rain across a large portion


Forecast – for Oct. 28, 2010

It’s always tough to try and create a forecast when the main weather maker is still unfolding. The dominant weather feature to start this forecast period will be the strong area of low pressure moving through Manitoba into Ontario. By Wednesday, the low should be to our east and we should see very strong northerly

Some Of My Favourite Weather Websites

With the fairly quiet weather we’ve been experiencing lately, I thought we could take a little bit of break this week and look at some of my favourite weather-related websites. Some people claim that the Internet creates more problems than it solves, but if you are a weather enthusiast the Internet opens up a world


Canada Might Be Spared Increased Drought

Some of the world’s most populous areas – southern Europe, northern Africa, the western U. S. and much of Latin America – could face severe, even unprecedented drought by 2100, researchers said Oct. 19. Increasing drought has long been forecast as a consequence of climate change, but a new study from the U. S. National

Forecast – for Oct. 14, 2010

Last week’s forecast turned out to be pretty good. If anything, the weather ended up being even nicer than we thought it might be. Temperatures over the long weekend were above the long-term average and the only part of the forecast which was off a bit was that the area of low pressure forecast for