2009 Continues To Be Cold

I know I’m a little bit late with our April weather outlook, but sometimes the timing of the forecasts and my deadlines just don’t work out – better late than never! Before we dive into the weather outlook for April and the rest of spring, we need to take our usual look back at last


A Textbook Of A “Textbook Storm”

It was a dark and stormy night – wait, that’s not it. It was a dark and stormy day – that’s more like it! It might seem like an old-fashioned start to a story, but that pretty much sums up the last week of weather across much of agricultural Manitoba. It is interesting that just

Issued: Monday, March 23, 2009 Covering: March 25 –April 1

The models certainly were correct over a week ago when they started to point towards a major spring storm for our region early this week. The problem now is trying to create a forecast for the upcoming week when this storm system is still evolving. The reason creating a forecast will be so difficult is


Issued: Monday, March 16, 2009 Covering: March 18 –March 25

As is typical when spring starts to move in, some regions will see plenty of sunshine along with really warm temperatures while other areas are cloudy, foggy and cool. This was the case last weekend as eastern regions saw temperatures soar to nearly 10C under plenty of sunshine and light winds, while western areas had

Most Of The World Has Predictable Weather

Our little break from weather school seems to have stretched out for over a month now. Well, Reading Week (or should I say “Month?”) is over and it’s time to get back to work! In our last lesson we continued our look at atmospheric circulation, and in particular, we built upon our general model of


La Niña Might Mean Good Crop This Year

The weather outlook for the 2009 growing season: normal temperatures and precipitation for most of the Prairies. Maybe. A weakening La Nińa effect could mean stable weather over much of the North American grain belt between June and August, with good crops possible, according to Mike Tannura, an American weather analyst. Four of Canada’s five

2009 Continues To Be Cold And Snowy

My gut feeling is that we are going to have a March with near-to slightly belowaverage amounts of precipitation. February 2009 turned out to be an unusual month, weather-wise, across agricultural Manitoba. We started off the month like January, with colder-than-a verage conditions, and most people began to resign themselves to the fact that February


Neither Rain, Nor Snow, Nor Sleet, Nor Freezing Rain…

Sometimes you just have to seize a teachable moment and take a break from the normal routine of a class, and this week looks to be just that week. While I’m not sure just what will happen with the storm system that is to move through southern and central Manitoba the first two to four

We See A Warm-Upthis Month?

Well, it’s probably no surprise to anyone that January ended up being colder than average right across agricultural Manitoba. The coldest temperatures for the month were recorded in the Winnipeg area, with a mean monthly temperature of around -20C; Brandon was a little milder at -19.5C and Dauphin was the “hot spot” with a mean