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Every few years I like to revisit the topic of perfect Christmas holiday weather. Each year that I have looked at this, December has started out warm and dry with little snow cover across large parts of the southern Prairies. And what do we see this year? A warm start to December with below average

I recently tried to explain how I go about creating a forecast so you can do it too. Here is the Coles notes version: This final point is important. This is when you start to understand how different professional forecasters think. They might call for snow and yet the weather models don’t show snow. You

After a warm September across the Prairies, the first half of October continued in September’s footsteps. Above-average temperatures graced all three Prairie provinces for the first two to almost three weeks of the month. There was not much precipitation, making for absolutely beautiful fall weather. The wheels didn’t quite fall off, but winter made an