Forecast – for Jul. 14, 2011

Last week’s forecast played out pretty much as expected. The biggest exception would be to the start of the week, as fairly cool air spilled southward behind the departing low. Hopefully this week’s forecast works out as well! The cool area of high pressure that brought refreshing conditions to start the week will move off

Forecast – for May. 19, 2011

With strong high pressure firmly in place across the Prairies it looks like the first half of this forecast period will be sunny, dry and warm. A strong blocking ridge of high pressure that brought plenty of sunshine and fairly mild temperatures over the weekend and into the start of the work week will continue


Forecast – for May. 5, 2011

Iwish I could say the weather models are pointing toward summer-like weather moving in after the blast of winter last weekend, but unfortunately it’s not looking that way. On the bright side, while I wouldn’t call it summer, temperatures won’t be too cold during this forecast period and with a bit of luck we won’t

Forecast – for Dec. 16, 2010

This forecast period starts off a little tricky as the models are forecasting an area of low pressure to our west with a ridge of high pressure persisting to our east. The question is how far east the western low will be able to push and just where any snow will fall. Currently it looks


Forecast – for Oct. 14, 2010

Last week’s forecast turned out to be pretty good. If anything, the weather ended up being even nicer than we thought it might be. Temperatures over the long weekend were above the long-term average and the only part of the forecast which was off a bit was that the area of low pressure forecast for

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 Sep. 2, 2010

There definitely seems to be a shift going on in our overall weather pattern as the atmosphere begins to take on a fall-like pattern. Currently it doesn’t look as though this September will see the amazing weather that we saw last year. By mid-week, the large area of low pressure that affected much of southern

Forecast – for Aug. 26, 2010

Once again, the forecast played out pretty much as expected. The only significant change was that the low-pressure system that started off this week was a little stronger than anticipated, which resulted in cooler-than-expected air being forced over our region behind the low. That cool air should start to move out of our region by


Forecast – for Aug. 19, 2010

Well, I don’t think we’ll have to worry about summer coming to an end and fall moving in just yet. After a little taste of fall over the weekend, it looks like summer will move back in by this weekend, and if the models hold true we should see summer- like conditions right through to

Extreme Heat Around The World – for Aug. 12, 2010

We have seen some hot weather here in Western Canada this year, but nothing that unusual or record breaking. This is not the case over a large portion of Asia this summer. I guess it’s not surprising that we would see some all-time national temperature records being broken this year, since the Earth as a