Cool high pressure that brought plenty of sunshine and cool temperatures to our region over the last week or so looks as if it will begin to weaken and move off to the East around the middle of this week. This will have two effects on our weather. First we will see temperatures warm up which will allow the melt to start again. Secondly, it looks as if our weather pattern will start to become more active once again which means more chances of seeing either snow or rain.
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Daniel Bezte looks back on October weather on the Prairies and looks ahead to see whether there’s any consensus for this winter’s weather.
The second half of this week looks as if it will be fairly mild with high temperatures in the +5 to +10 C range. We might see some clouds along with a few showers or flurries on Friday as weak low pressure slides in from the northwest. Over the weekend things should be fairly nice once again with more sun than clouds along with a continuation of mild temperatures.
Once next week rolls around, the long-range forecast starts to become a little fuzzy and worrisome. The weather models are hinting at a large storm system developing to our southwest around Monday and then pushing eastwards bringing a chance of significant precipitation to our general region on Tuesday or Wednesday. Confidence in this system is fairly low right now and hopefully, if it does form, it will stay well to our south.
Looking further ahead the models are not painting a very nice picture as they are leaning towards cool weather moving back in along with several chances for precipitation.
Highs:-3 to +9 C.Lows:-16 to -1 C. Probability of precipitation falling as rain: 30 per cent.
