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Lightning bolts coming from clouds
Weather

When thunder roars, stay indoors

Lightning strikes can kill

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Lightning strikes every three seconds during the summer months in Canada. Besides causing power outages and forest fires, lightning strikes can also seriously injure or kill. Through recent advances in detection technology, Environment Canada’s Meteorological Service has improved its ability to track lightning and display high-risk lightning areas. See the new Canadian Lightning Danger Map
Weather

Seasonable temperatures ahead

Daniel Bezte's weekly forecast

Last week’s forecast played out pretty much as expected, with a couple of small but significant differences. The area of low pressure that affected southern and central regions on Thursday and Friday ended up being stronger than anticipated. This allowed for more cold air to work in behind the system, bringing fairly widespread frosts on
Crops, Forages, Weather

Green Gold (Central): Time to assess frost damage

Here is the first release for the scissor clipping project for 2013. This year we will be reporting from various areas of the province (eastern, central, Interlake, western). For the central report, the fields that are being sampled are in the south-central and Arborg areas. Site RFV PEAQ RFV NIR Height CP Arborg 268 212
Provincial control structure on Tobacco Creek. photos: submitted
Opinion

Reflecting on the flood that didn’t happen

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After dire predictions and many preparations on both sides of the border, citizens have started breathing a huge sigh of relief. Unless we receive very large levels of precipitation in the coming days, the threat of flooding seems to have been alleviated. Some of us are just relieved; others are asking why the forecasts were
Weather

A wet few days ahead

It looks more and more likely that the second half of this week will be fairly wet across most of southern and central Manitoba. The main questions are just how much rain, where will it fall, and how long will it last? The weather models have been fairly consistent with developing another cut-off low over
Pregnant donkeys are towed out of danger behind an ATV. Although they are miles from the nearest river, a flash flood swept through the Von Bargens’ yard near Gilbert Plains on April 28 leaving them with over a dozen dead calves. photo: submitted
Livestock, News

Flash flood swamps farmyard

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AGilbert Plains family is blaming illegal drainage for the flash flood that had swept through their farmyard April 28 — causing $500,000 in losses. “It was truly like something you would watch on TV,” said Karen Von Bargen, who ranches with her husband Craig. Amazed by the force of the sudden deluge, they clung to fences
Weather

Cooler weather trying to move in

Warm and active are the best ways to describe this forecast period. It finally looks as though spring is taking hold across the forecast region as fairly mild air moves in. Along with the warmer air will come plenty of chances for showers and thundershowers. Unfortunately, it now looks as though the warm air might
Weather

Is the jet stream getting stuck more often?

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It’s best to hope these ‘blocking patterns’ don’t become the norm This is one of those weeks when I’m just not sure what to write about, so I thought I’d discuss some ongoing weather research that just might help us understand how we could go from a record-warm March to a record-cold April in just
Weather

Models continue to bring in warm weather

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After several weeks of seeing the warmer weather only a week or so away, it finally looks like it will arrive! Is this going to spell an end to our record spring cold snap? I’m not totally convinced of that yet. On Wednesday it looks like there will be another area of low pressure pushing
Weather

A new look at radiational cooling

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If long-wave radiation can easily escape the area, we could see net cooling even if the sun is shining

I came across a weather article last week that was a purely academic discussion about radiational cooling. It was one of those articles that at first glance seemed to be purely a discussion for true weather geeks, meteorologists and university professors, with very little if anything to do with an everyday understanding of the weather,

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