Province advises spring run-off has started in Manitoba

Red River peak expected to move from Emerson to Winnipeg in next ive to six days

Province of Manitoba – The Hydrologic Forecast Centre at Manitoba Infrastructure and Transportation advises that spring run-off due to snowmelt has started in most of the southern, southwest, southeast and Interlake regions. Above-freezing temperatures earlier this month in southern and central Manitoba, adjacent provinces and the United States have led to an early spring melt.  The

Forecast: Return to more average weather conditions

Issued March 14, 2016 – Covering the period from March 16, 2016 to March 23, 2016

Last week’s forecast called for temperatures to be “at or above” the usual temperature range for this time of the year as warm air spread into the region. Well, temperatures were definitely “above” the usual temperature range, with a large number of locations breaking records for daytime highs and even some overnight lows. It does



Forecast: An early shot of spring weather

Issued March 7, 2016 – Covering the period from March 9, 2016 to March 16, 2016

From a forecasting point of view, you can really tell we are starting to move into spring, as it’s this time of the year when weather models often have a hard time “figuring out” just what’s going on. We saw some of this with last week’s forecast as some areas cleared out and saw plenty


Are we looking at a warm, dry spring?

The snow cover so far across Western Canada won’t take as much sunlight to melt

The biggest weather news of the week, at least according to my local news sources, was AccuWeather’s spring weather prediction. So I figured maybe I should join in and take a look at what the different forecasters have called for this spring. After all, meteorological spring is only a couple of weeks away (March-April-May). In

Forecast: Little change expected in overall pattern

Issued Feb. 8, 2016, covering the period from Feb. 10, 2016 to Feb. 17, 2016

The battle between cold air to our northeast and milder air to our west and south will continue, with the overall pattern staying the same — but as they say, the devil is in the details. Take last weekend’s area of low pressure. The models had predicted this low, but it ended up a little


Forecast: Light snow, but no big storms

Issued Feb. 1, 2016, covering the period from Feb. 3, 2016 to Feb. 10, 2016

Last week’s forecast played out pretty close to what was predicted. Last Wednesday’s Alberta clipper tracked a little farther south and packed a bit of a stronger punch than anticipated, while the weekend system was weaker than expected. These two systems did bring some very mild weather with them, though, which helped to end the

Forecast: Arctic high pressure continues to dominate

Forecast issued Jan. 18, 2016, covering the period from Jan. 20, 2016 to Jan. 27, 2016

The coldest air of the winter moved in as expected last weekend, with most locations either seeing air temperatures in the -30 to -33 C range or feeling wind chills in the -40 C or colder range. Hopefully this was nature’s biggest push of cold air for the winter, but as usual, only time will


December’s weather roundup

December’s weather roundup

The current pattern favours below-average amounts of precipitation for January

With the ending of a year and the beginning of a new one, we traditionally look back at what was, then look ahead to see what the new year might have in store for us. From a weather point of view, there are a number of ways we can do this. I think we’ll begin

Forecast: Cold winter weather moving in for a while

Forecast issued Jan. 4, 2016, covering the period from Jan. 6, 2016 to Jan. 13, 2016

After a fairly nice end to the year and an equally nice start to 2016, it looks like we’re in for some significant changes in our overall weather pattern. High pressure that brought us plenty of sunshine along with fairly mild temperatures over the weekend pulled off to the east, and by Wednesday the weather