Forecast – for Mar. 17, 2011

The weather pattern looks as if it will continue to be fairly active during this forecast period. After seeing a rather strong area of low pressure push through southern and central regions late last week, which luckily brought more wind than snow, it looks like another low will move through during the middle of this

Forecast – for Mar. 3, 2011

To understand the forecast for this period you need to create the following picture in your mind’s eye. Out west off the coast of southern B.C. is a large area of low pressure that will basically remain in place as new storms push in from the Pacific to help fortify this system. To our northwest,


Forecast – for Feb. 3, 2011

Last week’s forecast played out pretty much as anticipated. The only fly in the ointment was that last Friday’s system ended up dropping more snow than expected. For this forecast period, it doesn’t look like we will see much snow, but there will be a fair bit of cold air to deal with. The area

Forecast – for Jan. 27, 2011

It seems like we are in one of those weather patterns where every little system that comes by drops a little precipitation. Usually we only see this in the spring or summer but it looks like this pattern will continue for at least this forecast period. It has been a tough couple of weeks for


Forecast – for Jan. 13, 2011

What was bad weather for Alberta last week was fairly good to us here in Manitoba. A broad region of low pressure developed over Western Canada last week and it decided to stick around. This kept the forecast arctic high and the resulting cold temperatures bottled up north. This persistent region of low pressure kept

Forecast – for Jan. 6, 2011

Cold and high pressure won out over most of agricultural Manitoba last week which kept the series of snowstorms mostly to our south with only the extreme southern and eastern parts of agricultural Manitoba seeing any significant snow. During this forecast period it looks like cold high pressure will dominate again, bringing what can only


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

All I Want For Christmas Is… A Weather Station!

Ithink most people in this part of the world are naturally interested in the weather, but it seems that over the last 10 or so years, that interest in weather and weather-related instruments for the home weather enthusiast has really increased. When I first decided to start observing and recording the weather at home, about


Forecast – for Nov. 11, 2010

After some near-record-breaking warm weather this past weekend, it looks like more seasonable weather is poised to move in during this forecast period. The question will be whether we’ll remain dry, or will we see snow accompany the cooler conditions? The ridge of high pressure that brought the beautiful weather over the weekend will have

Some Of My Favourite Weather Websites

With the fairly quiet weather we’ve been experiencing lately, I thought we could take a little bit of break this week and look at some of my favourite weather-related websites. Some people claim that the Internet creates more problems than it solves, but if you are a weather enthusiast the Internet opens up a world