Westerly winds and high pressure dominate

When it comes to weather and weather forecasting you’ve got to love and hate this time of year. Both spring and fall are the transition periods between our two main seasons, winter and summer. In simple terms, it’s a time of battle between these two seasons. This can make for some interesting weather and can

Weather pattern trying to shift

Those of you who follow the usual temperature range for this time of the year have probably noticed that we have hit peak temperatures and are now on the downswing — sigh! That said, the weather models have been having a heck of a time trying to figure out just what will happen over the


Active thunderstorm season?

Sometimes I’m as quick as the next person to jump all over weather forecasters when they’re way off the mark. It’s easy for us to notice when a forecast is wrong, but we rarely notice how often they are right. A lot of people are also quick to say how weather forecasting hasn’t really gotten

Well-above-average temperatures to continue

That was one memorable week of weather across pretty much all of agricultural Manitoba, but all good things must eventually come to an end. During this forecast period we are going to see things cool down a little bit, but if this was any other year this forecast would still be amazing. The ridge of


Arctic air trying to drop southward

So far this winter the warm weather has been easily winning out over the cold weather. We saw this in the last forecast. The forecast played out pretty much as expected; the only thing that you had to do was bump up the temperatures by 5 or so! At the end of last week’s forecast

Dry pattern to continue, but with cooler temperatures

It looks like this forecast period will start off on the mild side, but if the long-range models are correct it could be the last mild weather we see for a while. Low pressure tracking across the northern Prairies will bring a mild flow of southerly air during the middle and later part of this


Patterns See Manitoba Slowly Sliding Into Winter

Last weekend s storm system came in exactly on time, but, as is usual with big storms, it ended up taking a track that none of the models predicted. Instead of moving to the northeast as these systems usually do, it drifted almost due north. The result of this was more precipitation over western and

No Big Cool-Downs… At Least, Not Yet

The main weather story for this forecast period will be the chance for our first real shot of snow this weekend. Weather for the middle part of this week looks to be rather quiet, as a large region of high pressure sits to our south and low pressure spins off the West Coast. Without any


More Christmas Weather Ideas

CO-OPERATOR CONTRIBUTOR Last issue we began our look at what s available for the weather enthusiast on your Christmas list, and we started off by looking at several different weather instruments that are available for under $50. This week we ll continue our look, but will bump up our price range. Don t forget to

Forecast – for Sep. 15, 2011

After a week of some truly amazing weather we are back down to reality this week as fall weather tries to take hold. A large region of cool arctic high pressure will dominate our weather for the first half of this forecast period. The centre of this large area of high pressure is forecasted to