Mild weather moves back in on the Prairies

Issued: Monday, April 27, 2015 – Covering: April 29 – May 6, 2015

Sometimes you just have to love the way the weather works out. Looking at last week’s forecast, depending on where you lived, it was either way off or perfect. For those of you who thought it was perfect, the predicted forecast wasn’t the reason why. When it comes to weather forecasting, sometimes you just can’t

Mild weather should continue

Issued: Monday, April 13, 2015 – Covering: April 15 – April 22, 2015

The weather pattern played out a little quicker than forecast last week. The mild weather moved in as expected, but the cold front moved through on Sunday instead of Monday. For this forecast period it looks like the mild weather will continue, but the overall pattern, while mainly dry, will be fairly active. This means


Warmest temperatures of the year expected

Issued: Monday, Mar. 9, 2015 – Covering: Mar. 11 – Mar. 18, 2015

After watching the weather models try to figure out the forecast for the last week or so, you can definitely tell spring is trying to move in. As warmer weather begins its annual battle with winter, the weather models often have a hard time agreeing on just what will happen. This is exactly what’s been

One last shot of arctic air

Issued: Monday, Mar. 2, 2015 – Covering: Mar. 4 – Mar. 11, 2015

It looks like this forecast period will be a transition period, as the weather models have been showing a switch in our weather pattern towards a much more spring-like one. This forecast period will start off much like all the forecasts for the last month, with an area of arctic high pressure dropping southeastward. This


Storm systems staying away

Issued: Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 – Covering: Dec. 10 – Dec. 17, 2014

As usual for this time of the year, the general weather pattern played out as expected, but differences in the strength of the systems, along with the overall track, ended up impacting the longer-range forecast — at least a little bit. Arctic high pressure moved in as expected behind last weekend’s low and, as predicted,

Weather pattern becoming more active

Issued: Monday, Nov. 24, 2014 – Covering: Nov. 26 – Dec. 3, 2014

Last week’s forecast didn’t turn out exactly as the weather models predicted. A large storm system moving across the central Prairies last weekend washed out as it moved into Manitoba, and was replaced by a second system that was forecast to move by us to our south. This system became much stronger than forecast and,


Weather to bring a nice start for Thanksgiving long weekend

Issued: Monday, Oct. 6 – Covering: Oct. 8 - Oct. 15, 2014

As we begin to transition from fall to winter the weather can often behave unexpectedly, and we definitely saw this happen last week. Around this time last week the forecast called for a fairly strong area of low pressure to move northward out of the States, then move off to the northeast. Well, this low

We ride the temperature roller-coaster

By the time you read this forecast, we’ve either just dodged a big winter storm to our south or are just starting to dig ourselves out of it! The weather models have been pretty consistent with bringing a strong, slow-moving storm system across the northern U.S. during the middle of this week. Whether this system


Temperatures on a roller-coaster

Weather forecast for week of Nov. 25, 2013

The weather looks to be settling into a bit more of a predictable pattern. Last week’s forecast was pretty good, with most systems moving and behaving as forecasted by the weather models. For this forecast period it looks like our current up-and-down pattern will continue. The weather models show us in a predominantly northwesterly flow

Models continue to bring in warm weather

After several weeks of seeing the warmer weather only a week or so away, it finally looks like it will arrive! Is this going to spell an end to our record spring cold snap? I’m not totally convinced of that yet. On Wednesday it looks like there will be another area of low pressure pushing