Issued: Monday, August 17, 2009 Covering: August 19 –August 26

It looks like this forecast period will end up being the reverse of last week’s forecast. Low pressure moved in last weekend as predicted and then slowed and intensified as it pushed to the northeast. This has placed our region under a cool northwesterly flow. Within this flow we will see another area of low



Issued: Friday, July 31, 2009 Covering: August 5 –August 12

Well, the promise of hot weather last week vanished just like the sunshine as a persistent blocking pattern over North America amplified last week. This allowed the eastern North American low to deepen and kept us under a strong northwest flow. In the flow we saw several smaller lows develop and affect our region. During


Issued: Monday, July 13, 2009 Covering: July 15 –July 23

After a cool start to July and another cold area of low pressure during the middle part of this week, it finally looks like we might see a return of summer heat. I guess the main weather story for this forecast period is another unseasonable strong surface and upper low moving through our forecast region.

Issued: Monday, July 6, 2009 Covering: July 8 –July 15

It looks like we will have a predominately west to northwesterly flow across agricultural Manitoba during this forecast period. The upper level pattern has a large area of low pressure over northeastern Canada with a ridge of high pressure over the far western states. The flow in the upper atmosphere is riding over the western


Issued: Monday, June 29, 2009 Covering: July 1 –July 8

Last week I indicated that we could see some dicey weather last Friday as a trough of low pressure moved through our region. But as usual this year Mother Nature had to take things to the extreme again. As the trough pushed through our region an upper low caught up with it and helped to