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

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

Issued: Monday, July 19, 2010 Covering: July 21 –July 28

Last week’s forecast continues to play out pretty much as advertised. For the first half of this forecast period, our weather will be dominated by weak areas of low and high pressure. The end result of this will be a tricky forecast as it will be difficult to predict how much sun or clouds any


That Was One Warm September – for Oct. 8, 2009

Winnipeg 2009 24.0 11.4 17.7 Previous 24.5 1897 9.8 1931 16.8 1948 2009 24.6 9.0 16.8 Brandon Previous 26.2 1897 7.8 1978 16.4 1897 2009 24.4 9.0 16.7 Dauphin Previous 24.3 1891 9.3 1940 16.6 1940 No matter which way you slice it, September 2009 was one heck of a month weather-wise across the Canadian






Issued: Monday, August 17, 2009 Covering: August 19 –August 26

It looks like this forecast period will end up being the reverse of last week’s forecast. Low pressure moved in last weekend as predicted and then slowed and intensified as it pushed to the northeast. This has placed our region under a cool northwesterly flow. Within this flow we will see another area of low

Issued: Monday, July 6, 2009 Covering: July 8 –July 15

It looks like we will have a predominately west to northwesterly flow across agricultural Manitoba during this forecast period. The upper level pattern has a large area of low pressure over northeastern Canada with a ridge of high pressure over the far western states. The flow in the upper atmosphere is riding over the western