Weather Vane

Weather models had a good handle on our last forecast period. They were correct about the development and overall movement of last week’s Colorado low. It developed as forecasted and ended up moving northeast in two waves, as expected. The first wave was early in the week; the second, late in the week. Timing of

What is the old saying? Don’t like the weather? Wait a minute. That seems totally appropriate for our current weather pattern.  We are in a very active pattern as the persistent ridge of high pressure that brought warm fall weather across Western Canada has collapsed and, in its place, we have a large trough of

Last issue’s forecast turned out not too badly, with only a couple of wrinkles. There was a faster than expected return to mild temperatures and instead of a southern low, the western ridge rebounded, bringing nice warm fall weather through the last weekend of October. As we head into November, we will see average daytime

Last week’s forecast ran into trouble early on. After a warm start, the forecasted northern low tracked by and dragged cold and unsettled air into our region. This northern low then stalled out over Hudson Bay and drifted back westward. This retrograde motion kept us in a cold and moist northerly flow all of last weekend and kept the