Cool start to the week, then mild

It looks more and more like winter will visit us during this forecast period. While things do look like they’ll get colder, it doesn’t look like we’ll see temperatures much colder than average during this forecast period — but to us so far this winter, it will feel cold! Weather for the first part of

Memories of disasters are all too soon forgotten

From Ripple Effect, a weekly newsletter from The Red River Basin Commission With the recent spate of wet years here in the Red River Basin, we’ve heard more than usual about risks of flooding. Statistical risks for flooding are based on the historical record of flooding and are typically expressed as statistical chances for certain


Mild, dry weather to continue to month’s end

It looks like we’ll be back into a mild weather pattern for the next couple of weeks. It also looks like we’ll be remaining on the dry side, with no large storm systems showing up on any of the medium- to long-range weather models. It’s a little too soon to start worrying, but after the

Will the wet years be followed by drought in 2012?

Producers can expect drier-than-normal conditions this spring, according to weather outlooks for the next couple of months. “Less-than-normal precipitation across the Canadian Prairies ahead of the winter freeze-up have already left soil conditions on the drier side,” said Drew Lerner, with World Weather Inc. of Kansas City. The absence of significant snowfall and above-average temperatures


Dryness could continue into the summer

The dry conditions that prevailed through the latter half of 2011 may continue on through 2012, says Manitoba Agriculture weather specialist Mike Wroblewski. Speaking at the 27th annual St. Jean Farm Days here last week, Wroblewski said the stage was set for 2011 in 2010, which showed higher-than-normal precipitation. “But once the fall came, wham.

Warm weather threatens to extend U.S. drought

A New Year’s Eve “heat wave” melted away welcomed winter snow that had brought some drought relief to the U.S. Plains, reviving fears that harmfully warm and dry conditions will persist into 2012, U.S. climatologists said in a report issued Jan. 5. “The return of warm, dry weather to the nation’s southern tier could be


A positive oscillation and record-setting warmth

Iknow in the last issue I said I’d do a recap of last year’s weather both local and globally, but sometimes Mother Nature has her own ideas and I have no choice but to follow her lead. So you’ll have to wait another week or two for the recap of last year’s weather. The main

Arctic air trying to drop southward

So far this winter the warm weather has been easily winning out over the cold weather. We saw this in the last forecast. The forecast played out pretty much as expected; the only thing that you had to do was bump up the temperatures by 5 or so! At the end of last week’s forecast


World briefs Jan. 12

La Nina threatens South American, U.S. crops Reuters / The U.S. government forecaster warned Jan. 5 that La Nia, the weather phenomenon widely blamed for withering drought in the southern United States and South America, may persist longer than expected, into the Northern Hemisphere spring. The prolonged La Nia, although weaker than it was a