Some Wet, Some Dry In June

Dauphin Brandon Winnipeg MEAN TEMP. 15.7 (15.8) 15.7 (16.6) 16.5 (17.0) PRECIPITATION 74.5 (86.5) 107.2 (75.7) 56.5 (89.9) Ithink if you had to summarize June’s weather and you could pick only one or two words, they would be either rain or wet. In fact, if we had to summarize the last two months, I would

Record Wet Spring For Much Of The Prairies

This was the wettest spring ever recorded for much of the Prairies shattering the previous record set in 1955, according to David Phillips, Environment Canada’s senior climatologist. “In my business, we break records by a fraction of a degree or a pinch of precipitation,” Phillips said in an interview last week. “But what we see


It Has Been Wetter

TABLE 1 Total rainfall, May 1 to June 27, in millimetres (compared to record) Dauphin City May June May and June Winnipeg Brandon 153.4 (200.6-1999) 107.2 (216.2-2005) 260.6 (272.4-2005) Regina Saskatoon 160.0 (177.7-1977) 89.0 (255.7-1901) 249.0 (316.8-1877) 111.2 (133.8-1943) 72.5 (226.7-1944) 183.7 (312.8-1953) 82.3 (160.0-1902) 70.5 (199.2-1975) 152.8 (271.4-1902) 128.5 (147.4-1977) 83.6 (186.5-1942) 212.1 (203.4-1991)

Issued: Monday, June 14, 2010 Covering: June 16 –June 23

It looks like we’ll have to deal with one more storm system before more summerlike weather finally moves in. For those of you who wouldn’t mind seeing a little more rain during this forecast period, then this is the forecast for you. If you have had it up to about here with rain, then it’s


Issued: Monday, June 7, 2010 Covering: June 9 –June 16

The active weather pattern that seems to be bringing more clouds than sun and plenty of chances for rain looks like it will continue at least for another week, but there are some signs that the pattern might be changing. Currently we see a very strong jet stream coming in off the Pacific and zooming

Here We Go Again? I Don’t Think So

TABLE 1. JUNE MONTHLY AVERAGES (C) Dauphin Brandon Winnipeg High Low 22.4 23.5 23.3 9.1 9.8 10.7 Mean 15.8 16.6 17.0 Precip (mm) 87.1 75.7 89.5 The Weather Vane is prepared by Daniel Bezte, a teacher by profession with a BA (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the University of Winnipeg. Daniel has taught


Too Much Rain For Farmers

“My experience has been crops at the early stage of growth are quite vulnerable.” – BOB WEI NS It never rains but it pours, and depending on where you were on the weekend, it poured some more. Most of agro-Manitoba received at least 23 mm of precipitation, with many areas getting 50 to 75 and

Issued: Monday, May 31, 2010 Covering: June 2 –June 9

Well, I knew there were going to be thunderstorms across southern Manitoba last weekend; what I did really believe was that some areas would see over 75 mm of rain. For those of you hoping we are going to enter a nice drying-out period I’m afraid the news isn’t all that good. We should see


Soggy Weekend Adds Up

TABLE 1. RAINFALL FROM 6 A. M. FRIDAY TO 6 A. M. SATURDAY LOCATION Winnipeg Emerson PortagelaPrairie 91.4mm Pinawa Brandon Carberry Great Falls DeltaMarsh 33.8mm McCreary Wasagaming 27.2mm Melita Carman Cypress River Gimli Oak Point Roblin Dauphin FisherBranch 15.5mm Sprague Deerwood Pilot Mound Morden RAINFALL (mm) 95.0 mm 110.4 mm 87.8 mm 63.0 mm 46.4

Wanted: Accurate Farm Weather Forecasts

It would be great to have even longer-range forecasts with reasonable accuracy, but I’m not convinced that is possible. Talking about the weather is a Canadian pastime and an obsession among grain producers. There’s been a lot to talk about this spring, with a big low-pressure system often following close on the heels of the