No significant storms in sight

Weather forecast for week of Nov. 11, 2013

Last week’s forecast pretty much fell apart after the weekend, as a very strong area of arctic high pressure dropped southeastward, bringing the coldest air of the season to all areas. Luckily this area of high pressure moved through quickly, resulting in only a day or two of cold air. This forecast period looks to

Dry, hot weather expected

Weekly weather forecast

The biggest problem with last week’s forecast was that the low pressure system expected to zip through the region over the weekend ended up moving much slower. This allowed for several rounds of rain to form and rotate through our region, bringing too much rain to some areas and some much-needed rain to others. This


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

Cooler weather trying to move in

Warm and active are the best ways to describe this forecast period. It finally looks as though spring is taking hold across the forecast region as fairly mild air moves in. Along with the warmer air will come plenty of chances for showers and thundershowers. Unfortunately, it now looks as though the warm air might


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

Well-below-average temperatures to continue

This is probably one of the toughest forecasts I have had to write in a long time. First of all, it’s tough because the weather is not looking that great over the next seven to 10 days; secondly, because the weather models have been all over the place with each model run! This forecast period


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

Spring forecasts ‘all over the place!’

So far this spring winter has been able to keep a fairly good grip on most of the three Prairie provinces. While there has been the odd day here and there with above-freezing temperatures, we haven’t seen any significant melting taking place yet. On the other side of the coin, with the exception of a


Are we in for a mid-month cold snap?

Well, it looks like the models were a little off with the storm system that affected southern Manitoba during the start of this week. While initially the models had this low staying weak and tracking through southern regions, the low was able to tap into some deep moisture from the south which allowed it to

Out like a lamb and in like a lamb

When we have a quiet weather pattern with no strong systems affecting our region, it can sometimes be a little tough in the late winter and early spring to figure out just what will happen in regards to the weather. While last week’s forecast wasn’t too bad, it did miss out on a lot of