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Another week has come and gone, and the question remains: When will spring get here? Similar to last week’s forecast, the answer is, don’t hold your breath. It is going to slowly get warmer as the amount of daylight and strength of the Sun increases, but the overall weather pattern continues to lean toward continuation of below-average temperatures.

You can tell when the weather pattern starts to switch into spring mode, not because we necessarily see warmer weather, but because the weather models have a tough time with medium-range forecasts. We saw this in the last forecast. Confidence was low and it looked as though we would be stuck between the two main

I’m increasingly impressed with the weather models lately. Once again, they did a bang-up job with the medium-range forecast. We saw a strong area of low pressure develop across the central U.S., which brought plenty of severe winter weather to our American neighbours and to the east during last issue’s forecast period. We stayed high

The weather models have been on a bit of a roll lately as last week’s forecast once again played out close to what was predicted. We saw an abrupt return to cold weather, followed by a quick weekend warm-up, then followed by a return to colder conditions. The main storm track stayed either well to

Once again last week’s forecast began on the right track, with warm weather moving in last Wednesday followed by a cooling trend on Thursday and Friday. What it missed out on was the strength of the warming trend. The push of warm air ended up being much stronger than anticipated as the upper ridge of

The weather models were nearly bang-on with last week’s forecast. The only missteps were a little more snow than anticipated as the Alberta clipper moved through our region last Thursday and Friday, and the slightly colder air that moved in behind that system. This was not unexpected, as a stronger push of cold arctic air

The nice mid-winter weather continued, and if you are like me, you know that eventually this pattern will break down and we will see a return of average or below-average temperatures. Last week’s forecast did pretty well, considering the sluggish weather pattern. We saw mostly cloudy skies and mild temperatures, with occasional periods of light snow and fog.