Forecast – for Oct. 14, 2010

Last week’s forecast turned out to be pretty good. If anything, the weather ended up being even nicer than we thought it might be. Temperatures over the long weekend were above the long-term average and the only part of the forecast which was off a bit was that the area of low pressure forecast for

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.


Forecast – for Sep. 16, 2010

Acouple of things look to be fairly certain during this forecast period. The first is that we will likely continue to see temperatures near the low end of the usual temperature range for this time of the year. Secondly, there appears to be a very strong chance that a large portion of agricultural Manitoba will

Forecast – for Aug. 19, 2010

Well, I don’t think we’ll have to worry about summer coming to an end and fall moving in just yet. After a little taste of fall over the weekend, it looks like summer will move back in by this weekend, and if the models hold true we should see summer- like conditions right through to


Issued: Monday, July 19, 2010 Covering: July 21 –July 28

Last week’s forecast continues to play out pretty much as advertised. For the first half of this forecast period, our weather will be dominated by weak areas of low and high pressure. The end result of this will be a tricky forecast as it will be difficult to predict how much sun or clouds any

Issued: Monday, July 12, 2010 Covering: July 14 –July 21

This forecast period starts off with a rather strong upper-level low tracking across southern and central Manitoba. Fortunately for us, this low doesn’t look as though it will linger as they tended to do this spring; it should move out by Thursday. Thursday will see a mix of sun and clouds, with western areas seeing


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, April 19, 2010 Covering: April 21 –April 28

All I can say to start this forecast period is that it’s going to be pretty hard to beat the incredible weather pretty much all of agricultural Manitoba saw last weekend and the beginning of this week. Thanks to a ridge of high pressure and a very dry air mass, most places recorded temperatures in


Issued: Monday, March 22, 2010 Covering: March 24 –March 31

Spring is always the toughest time of the year for forecasting and this forecast period is going to be no exception. Confidence levels are a little lower than usual for a few reasons. First, with a number of areas having little or no snow cover, sunshine can make a big difference in temperatures. Secondly, this