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

Issued: Monday, May 24, 2010 Covering: May 26 –June 2

The blocking ridge of high pressure that brought sunny skies and warm temperatures last week has moved to the east and a large trough of low pressure has taken its place over our region. With high pressure to our east and low pressure to our west, the general flow of the atmosphere over our region


Issued: Monday, May 17, 2010 Covering: May 19 –May 26

Summer-like conditions definitely won out over the possible cool, wet conditions for the first half of this forecast period. The warm, dry weather is the result of a split flow in the middle layers of the atmosphere. This is keeping any storm systems well to our north or just to our south. Combine this with

Issued: Monday, May 3, 2010 Covering: May 5 –May 12

What a difference a week can make. The big storm system that hit our region as forecast late last week ended up stalling out and sat over southern Manitoba all weekend, bringing clouds and showers. This system looks like it will be followed by a second smaller but still strong system on Tuesday and Wednesday.



The Changing Arctic, Part 5

The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He has taught climate and weather classes at the U of W, and is a guest climate expert on CJOB’s morning show with Larry Updike. Daniel runs a computerized weather station


Dauphin Brandon Winnipeg

February Monthly Averages (C) Max T Min T Mean T Ppt (mm) The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of W. He has taught climate and weather classes at the U of W, and is a guest climate expert on

Last Week’s Storm — Epic

MANITOBA The Pas 42 cm Russell 30-35 cm Flin Flon 30 cm McCreary 30 cm Dauphin 25 cm Winnipeg 20 cm PortagelaPrairie 19cm Steinbach 15-20 cm Emerson Brandon 16 cm 15 cm The weather page is prepared by Daniel Bezte. Dan has a BA Honours degree in geography, specializing in climatology, from the U of


November A Sign Of The Winter To Come?

It seems like we’re seeing October weather in November this year. Recordwarm temperatures were recorded at a number of stations across Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta last week, and overall for the month we have a chance of breaking another monthly record for warmth. Is it remuneration for all the cold weather we had to endure