Forecast – for Jan. 6, 2011

Cold and high pressure won out over most of agricultural Manitoba last week which kept the series of snowstorms mostly to our south with only the extreme southern and eastern parts of agricultural Manitoba seeing any significant snow. During this forecast period it looks like cold high pressure will dominate again, bringing what can only

December To Follow November’s Pattern?

Before we dive into our monthly look back at the weather, I think I need to clear up a misunderstanding from the “probability of snow” article from a couple of weeks ago. A fair number of people have emailed me asking if there is such a low probability of getting more than 10 cm of


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

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


Cool, Wet September Ahead? – for Sep. 9, 2010

Another August has come and gone and from a weather point of view I think we can label this month as “variable” or “the month of change.” If we look strictly at the numbers for the month, both Winnipeg and Dauphin had a slightly warmer-than-average month. Winnipeg had a mean monthly temperature of 18.9 C,

Average July — Warm August – for Aug. 5, 2010

Another month has come and gone and, from a weather point of view, I think the best way to sum up July would be to say that it was typical. We saw some rain, a few severe storms, plenty of sunshine, and clouds for that matter, and relatively warm temperatures. What we didn’t see were


Issued: Monday, June 28, 2010 Covering: June 30 –July 7

This forecast period starts off with fairly quiet nice summer weather, but it doesn’t look like we’ve rounded the corner just yet on the unsettled stormy weather we’ve been experiencing for the last couple of months. While temperatures look as if they will remain fairly mild, we will see clouds and the chance of thunderstorms

Issued: Monday, April 19, 2010 Covering: April 21 –April 28

All I can say to start this forecast period is that it’s going to be pretty hard to beat the incredible weather pretty much all of agricultural Manitoba saw last weekend and the beginning of this week. Thanks to a ridge of high pressure and a very dry air mass, most places recorded temperatures in


Warm March = Warm April

TABLE 1. APRIL MONTHLY AVERAGES (C) Dauphin Brandon Winnipeg Maximum Minimum 10.3 10.7 10.3 -3.3 -2.7 -2.4 Mean 3.1 4.0 4.0 Precip (mm) 28.2 29.3 31.9 The Weather Vane is prepared by Daniel Bezte, a teacher by profession with a B. A. (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the University of Winnipeg. Daniel has