Forecast – for Oct. 7, 2010

It’s looking more and more like October 2010 is going to turn out to be a fairly nice month. If you remember back to last week’s forecast, we were not that confident in the last part of the forecast, which had the current ridge of high pressure breaking down and cool weather moving back in.

October And Winter Weather Outlooks

In a previous issue we discussed what type of winter we might expect, given the current La Nińa conditions over the Pacific Ocean. Now that winter is just around the bend, climatologically speaking, I thought we should revisit our previous La Nińa winter forecast and see just what the latest and greatest long-range forecasters are


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

When Should We Normally Expect Fall Frost?

It’s a little later than usual for me to talk about fall frost, as a good portion of agricultural Manitoba has already experienced some frost, but after receiving a few emails inquiring about this topic I felt there’s still time to touch on it. The first question I’m usually asked about fall frost is when


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. 16, 2010

Acouple of things look to be fairly certain during this forecast period. The first is that we will likely continue to see temperatures near the low end of the usual temperature range for this time of the year. Secondly, there appears to be a very strong chance that a large portion of agricultural Manitoba will


Taking A Look At La Niña – for Sep. 16, 2010

As summer comes to an end the most common question I have received is about what we should expect the coming winter to be like. Long-range forecasting is tough at the best of times, and most forecasts beyond 30 days are usually not more statistically correct than simply doing a coin toss, but – there

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



Canola Harvest Tips – for Aug. 26, 2010

Hail late in the season can break pods and bruise seeds. Damaged plants will dry off prematurely. Often the best way to manage canola with late-season hail damage is to swath the crop instead of straight combining. That way damaged pods don’t shell out while the grower waits to straight combine the crop. Also, bruised