Forecast: Hot, but no more records

Issued August 13, 2018: Covering the period from August 15 to August 23

After a record-breaking heat wave, even warmer-than-average temperatures might feel a little on the cool side. This forecast period will begin with an area of high pressure working its way across the Prairies, bringing mainly sunny skies and a return to warm temperatures. This area of high pressure will slide from Manitoba on Wednesday to

Forecast: Warm with the chance of thundershowers

Issued July 30, 2018: Covering the period from August 1 to August 8

Well, it looks as though the cool-down we experienced on a few days during the last forecast period was not the start of a pattern shift towards a cooler period. Instead, we saw temperatures quickly rebound back towards the 30° mark, continuing our warmer-than-average summer. Wednesday and Thursday of this week look to be sunny


More on severe summer weather: Hail

More on severe summer weather: Hail

You don't necessarily need a really tall thunderstorm to get the really big hailstones

Time to continue our series of articles on different types of severe summer weather. I like to re-examine these topics every year or two due to the importance of understanding the different types of severe weather, and also because most people find this aspect of weather so fascinating. In this issue we are going to

Forecast: Much cooler weather pattern developing

Issued July 23, 2018: Covering the period from July 25 to August 1

After a pretty hot first half of July it looks like we are going to see a slight cool-down during this forecast period. The big question is whether this is going to be a short-term or long-term change in our overall weather pattern. This forecast period will begin with a slow-moving upper low tracking from


Forecast: Warm weather looks to continue

Issued July 9, 2018: Covering the period from July 11 to 18

This forecast period looks like it will be a repeat of last week’s weather. Last week began with an area of low pressure bringing clouds along with showers and thundershowers. This was then followed by a return to sunshine and warming temperatures that culminated in the really hot and humid weather we experienced last Saturday.

Forecast: Warm weather to stick around

Issued July 2, 2018: Covering the period from July 4 to 11, 2018

After a fairly active period that brought a mix of sun and clouds along with scattered showers and thundershowers, it looks like things will settle down a bit for this forecast period. We’ll begin this forecast period with one last area of low pressure moving across our region on Wednesday. Expect clouds and showers along


Forecast: Warm-to-hot weather to dominate

Issued June 18, 2018: Covering the period from June 20 to 27, 2018

We definitely experienced showers and thundershowers last Friday as predicted, but with warmer-than-expected temperatures, and with higher humidities, the thundershowers became thunderstorms, with some becoming fairly severe across a number of regions. For this forecast period we’ll see a building ridge of high pressure bring plenty of sunshine and warm/hot temperatures. Expect daytime highs to

This past May recorded nearly five days above 30 C, plenty of warmth to welcome natural flora above ground.

A quick look back at May weather, then clouds

The mean monthly temperature for May 2017 was much cooler than in May 2018

Believe it or not, I got into a disagreement with someone about how nice/bad May’s weather was/has been. The person in question was positive that last May was nicer than this May. This brings me back to the whole notion of the weather brain, or weather memory. Just like most things in life, we tend


Hail as big as baseballs fell in some areas. This hail was collected in Manitou.

Hail takes a toll on southern Manitoba crops

Recovery depends on the extent of damage and crop stage. Some farmers are re-seeding

The Manitoba Agricultural Services Corporation (MASC) is still assessing hail claims from an intense thunder storm that swept across much of southwest and south-central Manitoba the evening of June 14. As of press time Monday morning MASC had received 250 spot loss hail claims and 120 re-seeding claims as a result of hail damage, David

Forecast: Cooler with a chance of some rain

Issued June 11, 2018: Covering the period from June 13 to 20, 2018

Last week’s forecast was a little hit and miss. We didn’t quite see pure sunny skies on Thursday or Friday, but we did see a few showers move through on Friday. Saturday, for most regions, turned out to be a bit of a bust as a moist easterly flow developed that gave most regions clouds,