With plenty of severe weather occurring all across the Canadian Prairies this summer, I thought we should go back and take a look at some of the aspects of severe summer weather. The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to severe summer weather is thunderstorms.Thunderstorms can bring several types of destructive
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Thunderstorms And Hail
Forecast – for Aug. 4, 2011
For this forecast period it appears we’ll stay in the same general weather pattern that we’ve been in now for over a month. With this pattern we see weak upper-level ridging in place, while at the surface, weak areas of low pressure form to our west and track either well to our north or to
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
Anatomy Of A Heat Wave
It’s been a while since we’ve seen temperatures like we have over the last week or so. Going back through some of the weather records, the last time we saw temperatures this warm was back in July of 2007. With the forecast showing warm to hot conditions lasting all the way through to the end
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
Forecast – for Jun. 23, 2011
Well, it felt a little more summerlike this past week and some areas were able to dry out, but other areas got hammered once again with heavy rains coming in the form of thunderstorms. In what seems to be a pattern this spring, we are once again starting this forecast period with a strong and
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
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