Thunderstorms — Putting It All Together

As we have an early deadline this week due to Canada Day, I won’t be able to do the monthly review and the look ahead at what July might have in store for us until next week. I know you are all disappointed about this, but there is nothing I can do about it –

Weather Has A Way Of Evening Out

The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He has taught climate and weather classes at the U of W, and is a guest climate expert on CJOB’s morning show with Larry Updike. Daniel runs a computerized weather station


Continuing Our Look At Thunderstorms

In the last issue, we started talking about thunderstorms and I was forced to end the article in what you might call a “cliff hanger.” We discussed how we need a strong difference in temperature vertically in the atmosphere, with cold air located over top of warm air. Then I went on to say that

Cooking Up Thunderstorms With Mother Nature

Well, it seems like it’s finally thunderstorm season, so I think we should take advantage of this fact and take a look at the topic of thunderstorms. Each year I touch on this topic, because, well, it’s one of the most important weather topics of which to have an understanding during the summer on the


Issued: Monday, May 25, 2009 Covering: May 28 –June 3

I’m starting to get a bad feeling about what this summer’s weather is going to be like. Usually when the weather pattern changes, it does so in a dramatic way, but so far I see no signs of it changing. In fact, the longer-range weather models, which have been hinting at a dramatic change in

A Textbook Of A “Textbook Storm”

It was a dark and stormy night – wait, that’s not it. It was a dark and stormy day – that’s more like it! It might seem like an old-fashioned start to a story, but that pretty much sums up the last week of weather across much of agricultural Manitoba. It is interesting that just