No more upper lows – but still unsettled

No more upper lows – but still unsettled

Covering: July 2 – July 9, 2014

By the time this forecast period rolls around it looks like we’ll finally be finished with upper lows. I can’t promise this will be the last one we’ll see, but the current weather models aren’t showing any more, at least out to the middle of July. This doesn’t mean we won’t see more rain. This

Expect plenty of Arctic air

Weather forecast for week of Nov. 21

With most regions now having at least a light covering of snow, it’s definitely starting to look like winter. Combine the snow cover with a couple of shots of arctic air and this forecast period is going to start feeling like winter too! The area of low pressure expected to help bring mild weather to


Southern ridge pattern developing

Southern ridge pattern developing

Weekly weather forecast for July 15, 2013

The only thing that prevented us from climbing into the low 30s last week was the extra cloud sticking around, along with the fairly high humidities. For this forecast period it looks like summer wants to stick around. The ridge of high pressure that has been periodically building and weakening over the western U.S. is

Big storms should stay away this week

While the weather across our region was relatively quiet last week, the weather pattern as a whole was not behaving quite like I predicted it would. Last week I pointed out that we were now into a summer pattern with weaker weather systems and more thunderstorms. We definitely saw more thunderstorms last week, along with

Some signs of warm weather

It looks like we’ll have to endure another week or so of cold weather before the weather models finally agree that warm weather will try to move in. After southern regions were brushed by a major late-winter storm on Monday we are left in a cold northwesterly flow for most of this week. Temperatures will


Warmer weather on the horizon?

If you’re hoping for a warm spring-like forecast, then you better stop reading right here. The area of low pressure that looked to bring some stormy weather around Wednesday of this week came in off the Pacific as predicted, but took a much more northerly route. This prevented the system from tapping into a lot

Winter’s still hanging on

The storm forecast at the start of this week materialized and brought more heavy snow to pretty much all of southern and central Manitoba. Behind this system, cold, quiet weather has moved in, allowing winter to stick around a little longer. Just how long is what we’ll try to figure out in this forecast. By

First big cold snap in two years

Last week’s forecast played out pretty much as expected. The only problem was that the two storm systems ended up being a little stronger than expected. It definitely feels like winter, as we are experiencing the first significant cold snap in almost two years. A fairly strong ridge of high pressure remains in place over


Summer weather trying to hang on

We are starting to see a shift in the general weather pattern across much of Canada, but I’m not sure if this is really a fundamental change in the pattern or the pattern simply adjusting to the changing season. For this forecast period we’ll see a bit of a battle between a ridge of high

What is causing our summer heat?

As summer slowly begins to wind down, with weather across the region being fairly uneventful, the question is, just what should I write about this week? We have looked back at the historic heat we’ve seen over the last year, we have gone into detail about the record-breaking heat over the central U.S., and we