2010: A Remarkable Year, Weather-Wise

Well, it’s that time of year again: a time to look back. Before we try to peer ahead at what 2011 might have in store for us, weather-wise, we need to take a good look back at some of the crazy weather we experienced across the Prairies during 2010. Before we really dig into the

Little Rain Coming To Dry U.S. Plains Wheat Region

CHICAGO/REUTERS The dry U.S. Plains Hard Red Winter wheat crop will receive little rain over the next week, adding more stress to young plants ahead of winter, a forecaster said Dec. 6. Very light rains of a trace to a few hundredths of an inch were expected for Dec. 7, then the Plains will be


Rains Plague Australian Harvest

Australia’s eastern states face at least another week of wet weather after rains stalled the country’s wheat harvest and raised concerns about the crop’s quality, the country’s weather bureau said Dec. 6. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology was forecasting more rainfall across eastern state grain regions through the week as farmers struggle to get harvesting

Forecast – for Nov. 11, 2010

After some near-record-breaking warm weather this past weekend, it looks like more seasonable weather is poised to move in during this forecast period. The question will be whether we’ll remain dry, or will we see snow accompany the cooler conditions? The ridge of high pressure that brought the beautiful weather over the weekend will have


Record-Breaking October

Well, October has now come and gone and weather-wise it was a pretty amazing month. Two main weather stories developed during October. The first was the beautiful warm weather we experienced during the first half of the month. The second was the record-breaking late-fall storm that dumped copious amounts of rain across a large portion

Forecast – for Oct. 28, 2010

It’s always tough to try and create a forecast when the main weather maker is still unfolding. The dominant weather feature to start this forecast period will be the strong area of low pressure moving through Manitoba into Ontario. By Wednesday, the low should be to our east and we should see very strong northerly


Forecast – for Oct. 21, 2010

If you’ve been watching the “Chance of precipitation falling as snow” statistic located at the bottom of the forecast each week, you may notice it really begins to jump up now that we are heading toward the end of October. I bring this up because it is starting to look like we may have to

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.


October And Winter Weather Outlooks

In a previous issue we discussed what type of winter we might expect, given the current La Nińa conditions over the Pacific Ocean. Now that winter is just around the bend, climatologically speaking, I thought we should revisit our previous La Nińa winter forecast and see just what the latest and greatest long-range forecasters are

Water Resources Shrinking: Statistics Canada – for Sep. 23, 2010

Is Canada running short of fresh water? That’s the question raised by a new study which says renewable water resources have fallen in the southern part of the country over the past three decades. The Statistics Canada study found that the region, where 98 per cent of Canadians live, lost 8.5 per cent of its