Pressure ridge may bring July heat wave

The weather models have been bouncing around over the last week, but over the last couple of days they seem to be coming into agreement on the forecast — and that forecast is for good old summer weather. The models show the upper ridge of high pressure, which brought plenty of sunshine and warming temperatures

Hit-and-miss long weekend

Last week’s forecast turned out to be fairly accurate; the only thing that was off was the amount of warming we saw on Sunday and Monday. The first half of this forecast period will be controlled by a large area of low pressure that will develop to our west. While the weather models have been


Last week’s forecast didn’t quite play out as expected, but it was close. The big thing that affected the forecast was the positioning of the area of high pressure that slid down from the Arctic. Instead of moving directly over Manitoba it shifted to the east by a few hundred kilometres. This allowed the western

High pressure to dominate this week

For most of this forecast period it looks like our weather will be dominated by high pressure. This will result in dry conditions, with temperatures starting out on the cool side and slowly warming to around average for this time of the year. A deepening area of low pressure over Eastern Canada will help an


Well-above-average temperatures to continue

That was one memorable week of weather across pretty much all of agricultural Manitoba, but all good things must eventually come to an end. During this forecast period we are going to see things cool down a little bit, but if this was any other year this forecast would still be amazing. The ridge of

Record-Shattering Heat

For southern and central Manitoba the weather last week went beyond the unusual and into the realm of extreme weather. Unless you were away or never left your home, you could not help but notice the incredibly warm summer-like temperatures that dominated our weather for much of last week. After all was said and done,


Summer Is Officially Over, But It’s Not Done Yet

Idon t think there are many people out there complaining that the last part of last week s forecast was off the mark. The ridge of high pressure rebuilt itself last weekend and brought summer-like temperatures to pretty much all of southern and south-central Manitoba. The forecast then pointed toward a trough of low pressure

Forecast – for Sep. 29, 2011

You have to love it when the weather models get it right. Last week the models pointed toward a large ridge of high pressure building across our region, and that played out pretty much as predicted. All regions saw plenty of sunshine over the weekend and into the first half of this week, along with


Forecast – for Sep. 8, 2011

Last week’s forecast turned out pretty much as expected, with the only exception being that it was slightly cooler than forecast over the weekend. Luckily, the start of this forecast period is playing out toward the warm end of the weather models. These weather models were having a hard time trying to figure out what

Forecast – for Aug. 11, 2011

Last week’s forecast played out pretty much as forecast, with only a few issues as to the timing of the weather systems. For this forecast period it looks as if we will see a slight change in our overall weather pattern. Things are going to feel just a little fall-like during parts of this forecast