Western Canada saw a scorching spring with little rain. Weather models suggest summer 2025 will be equally hot and dry.
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Canadian Prairies brace for hot and dry summer
Western Canada saw a scorching spring with little rain, and weather models suggest summer 2025 will bring more of the same
What makes the wind blow?
The ingredients for wind include gravity, pressure, Coliolis and friction that work to move air
The ingredients for wind include gravity, pressure, Coliolis and friction that work to move air.
Summer storm season returns to the Prairies
Warmer temperatures mean there’s much more energy available for severe summer weather, such as thunderstorms bringing heavy rains, hail, damaging wind and tornadoes
Warmer temperatures in Manitoba means there’s much more energy available for severe summer weather, such as thunderstorms bringing heavy rains, hail, damaging wind and tornadoes.
A dry spring may slide into a dry summer on the Prairies
Long range forecasts in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta all expect lack of rain for summer 2025
The rain tap might slow to a trickle on the Canadian Prairies this summer. Long range forecasts in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta all expect little precipitation in coming months.
Through rain, snow and sleet: What makes different precipitation types
The behaviour of water, and the idea of super-cooled water, in the atmosphere plays into what kind of precipitation we see on the ground
The behaviour of water, and the idea of super-cooled water, in the atmosphere plays into what kind of precipitation we see on the ground
Weather warfare is mostly fiction
Humans can exert some modest control over weather, but a lot of theories have no basis in fact
Humans can exert some modest control over weather, but a lot of attention on weaponized weather, though things like cloud seeding, is mostly fantasy.
Spring weather on the Prairies is a messy thing
Manitoba’s spring, along with the other Prairie provinces, has a lot of chaos built in as seasons change and summer tries to assert itself
Manitoba’s spring, along with the other Prairie provinces, has a lot of chaos built in as seasons change and summer tries to assert itself
Weather models fail to agree on spring 2025 forecast
It’s hard to tell what kind of spring farmers in Western Canada will face in 2025, looking at the variation in weather model predictions
It’s hard to tell what kind of spring farmers in Western Canada will face in 2025, looking at the variation in weather model predictions.
The tale behind a polar vortex
People on the Prairies have been hunkered down under extreme cold warnings, brought about by a polar vortex, but how does that weather phenomenon work?
People on the Prairies have been hunkered down under extreme cold warnings, brought about by a polar vortex, but how does that weather phenomenon work?
La Niña fails to move weather needle
Manitoba saw vicious cold snaps in January but, globally speaking, it was another month of warm temperatures
Manitoba saw vicious cold snaps in January but, globally speaking, it was another month of warm temperatures.
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