Forecast – for Mar. 31, 2011

Cool high pressure that brought plenty of sunshine and cool temperatures to our region over the last week or so looks as if it will begin to weaken and move off to the East around the middle of this week. This will have two effects on our weather. First we will see temperatures warm up

Forecast – for Mar. 24, 2011

Another tough forecast, at least to start this forecast period. One of the big weather-makers to affect this forecast period will be just winding up on Wednesday. As a number of you know, I have to complete this forecast on Monday in order to meet the newspaper’s publishing deadline. As I write this there is


Forecast – for Mar. 3, 2011

To understand the forecast for this period you need to create the following picture in your mind’s eye. Out west off the coast of southern B.C. is a large area of low pressure that will basically remain in place as new storms push in from the Pacific to help fortify this system. To our northwest,

Forecast – for Jan. 27, 2011

It seems like we are in one of those weather patterns where every little system that comes by drops a little precipitation. Usually we only see this in the spring or summer but it looks like this pattern will continue for at least this forecast period. It has been a tough couple of weeks for


Some Of My Favourite Weather Websites

With the fairly quiet weather we’ve been experiencing lately, I thought we could take a little bit of break this week and look at some of my favourite weather-related websites. Some people claim that the Internet creates more problems than it solves, but if you are a weather enthusiast the Internet opens up a world

Forecast – for Oct. 7, 2010

It’s looking more and more like October 2010 is going to turn out to be a fairly nice month. If you remember back to last week’s forecast, we were not that confident in the last part of the forecast, which had the current ridge of high pressure breaking down and cool weather moving back in.


Forecast – for Sep. 30, 2010

As September comes to an end and we enter the first true full month of fall, it looks like Mother Nature will be giving us a little bit of payback. After what was for most of us a cool and wet September, it looks like October will start off sunny and warm. A ridge of

Forecast – for Aug. 5, 2010

It has been a tough couple of months for the weather models during what is usually a fairly easy time of year to forecast. The main reason for this is because there has not been a single strong controlling weather system that has dominated our weather this summer. Instead, we have been experiencing weak systems


Forecast – for Jul. 29, 2010

It is looking like the first half of this forecast period will be warm and unsettled. The weather models are showing several chances of showers and thunderstorms as a couple of small areas of low pressure move through our forecast region. The first of these lows is forecasted to move through around Friday with a