Continuing Our Look At Thunderstorms

In the last issue, we started talking about thunderstorms and I was forced to end the article in what you might call a “cliff hanger.” We discussed how we need a strong difference in temperature vertically in the atmosphere, with cold air located over top of warm air. Then I went on to say that

Issued: Monday, May 25, 2009 Covering: May 28 –June 3

I’m starting to get a bad feeling about what this summer’s weather is going to be like. Usually when the weather pattern changes, it does so in a dramatic way, but so far I see no signs of it changing. In fact, the longer-range weather models, which have been hinting at a dramatic change in


Cooking Up Thunderstorms With Mother Nature

Well, it seems like it’s finally thunderstorm season, so I think we should take advantage of this fact and take a look at the topic of thunderstorms. Each year I touch on this topic, because, well, it’s one of the most important weather topics of which to have an understanding during the summer on the

A Textbook Of A “Textbook Storm”

It was a dark and stormy night – wait, that’s not it. It was a dark and stormy day – that’s more like it! It might seem like an old-fashioned start to a story, but that pretty much sums up the last week of weather across much of agricultural Manitoba. It is interesting that just


Warm and dry or cold and wet in 2009?

As we begin a new year, instead of looking back at what the weather was like during 2008, let us peer into the “weatherperson’s” crystal ball and see what the weather might have in store for us in 2009. To do this I usually rely on four different long-range weather forecasts: Environment Canada (EC), the