Forecast – for Jul. 28, 2011

Last week, we saw the low in northern Manitoba slow down and deepen more than anticipated. Along with that, the southern ridge of high pressure moved farther east than forecasted. Put the two together and that spelt windy and cool conditions for much of Manitoba late last week and to start the weekend. For this

Several Rainfall Records Broken

For most of us July has been hot and dry. There have been a few exceptions as thunderstorms have dumped some significant rains over a few areas. This hot, dry weather is in stark contrast to the cool, wet spring and early summer a large portion of agricultural Manitoba experienced this year. The question most


Forecast – for Jul. 21, 2011

Just like with cold weather, when hot conditions build into a region it can sometimes be difficult to break that weather pattern, and this is exactly what we saw at the beginning of this week. By mid-week we should see a break from the hot, sunny weather as an area of low pressure slowly tracks

Forecast – for Jul. 7, 2011

It looks like summer is here to stay as this forecast period is dominated by what can only be described as typical summer weather. Weak high pressure will be in place during the second half of this week bringing with it more sun than clouds along with nice warm temperatures. This high should keep most


Forecast – for Jun. 30, 2011

There has been a definite change in the weather pattern over the last couple of weeks. It has been a subtle change, not one of those “holy cow” type of changes where we go from one type of weather pattern to another just like that. Now the big question is, will we see this pattern

Different Forms Of Lightning

After taking a little break from our look at severe summer weather I figured it was time to pick up where we left off back in early May. In our last article on severe summer weather we took a technical look at lightning and I ended that article by letting you know we would take


Forecast – for Jun. 2, 2011

The weather models have been having a fair bit of trouble lately and this looks to continue into this forecast period. Last week the models predicted a strong low forming to our west over the weekend, then moving to the northeast. This low did form, but farther south, and it moved in early, bringing the

Storm Warning

MOVE FAST:Tornadoes like this one can travel in excess of speeds of 100 km per hour. Altona residents knew why a siren in town wailed for four minutes straight on a calm mid-afternoon May 18. It was a test of their community emergency warning siren, a specially installed system to alert residents in case of


A Technical Look At Lightning

Iknow I mentioned in my last severe weather article that I would be doing a detailed discussion about tornadoes sometime soon, but that sometime is not this week. Instead, I’ve decided to look at a particular aspect of thunderstorms that everyone has seen, can be deadly but rarely is, and is probably one of the

The Beauty And Power Of Thunderstorms

So far this year in Manitoba we haven’t had the warm temperatures needed for thunderstorms, never mind severe thunderstorms with tornadoes. Farther south there have been some killer tornadoes over the central and southern U.S. This week we’ll continue our look at tornadoes and severe summer weather, but instead of me rambling on and giving