Goodbye May, Hello Summer

How does the old saying go: “In like a lion out like a lamb?” Yeah, right – May definitely came in like a lion, with a storm bringing rain, snow and cold temperatures on the last day of April and continuing into the first day of May. With the cold start to the month and

Long Waves And Blocking Patterns

If you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute.” This is probably one of the most used and often true statements made about the weather in our part of the world. We live in the zone that stretches right around the globe, where warm air moving northward battles it out with cold air surging


Cool, Wet Weather In May?

Well, another month has come and gone and the weather was anything but perfect across the Prairies in April. As is usual at the start of a new month, we’ll take a little time to look back at April’s weather, then peer ahead to see what the next month or two might have in store

Forecast – for Apr. 14, 2011

After a fairly warm start to the week it looks like we will cool down once again to continue what’s turning out to be a cooler-than-average April. Arctic high pressure will slowly slide southward behind an area of low pressure which is forecast to move through north-central Manitoba during the middle of the week. This


Big Snows Hit Ontario

Every so often a set of atmospheric conditions comes together to create some really remarkable weather. This is what happened last week in Ontario when cold northwesterly winds combined with the relatively warm waters of the Great Lakes to produce some remarkable snowfalls. Whenever there is cold air and warm water, you can get what

Forecast – for Dec. 9, 2010

After a fairly quiet weekend and start to the week it looks like we might see more snow move in during the second half of the week as an Alberta Clipper takes shape. The models are showing an area of low pressure moving in from off the B.C. coast on Wednesday and then pushing east.


Forecast – for Dec. 2, 2010

It is finally starting to look like our current weather pattern which has brought well-above-average snowfalls to most of agricultural Manitoba is going to quiet down a little bit during this forecast period. As what looks to be the last in a series of storms pulls away to the east on Wednesday we should see

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.


When It Rains, It Pours — More Than Ever – for Jul. 29, 2010

Ihave received several emails the past few months regarding the number of heavy rainfall events and associated flooding that has occurred around the world lately. I started poking around a little bit to see what I could find on the subject, and as usual, I came across some good research. While these studies were done

Only Minor Relief Seen From Rain

Western Canadian producers hoping to get some sort of reprieve from the continuous precipitation will not be happy with the short-to medium-term forecasts. “I’m afraid the weather pattern that has dominated much of the Canadian Prairies this spring and early summer is going to stay pretty similar to what it has been,” Drew Lerner with