Weather Vane

Last week’s forecast came about as close as you can to nailing it. We saw plenty of sunshine and warm to record-breaking-warm temperatures. The only parts that were off were the showers and thundershowers that impacted west-central Manitoba instead of eastern regions and the extended forecast that called for colder weather over the Thanksgiving long

For the first time in a while, my last forecast was pretty darned close. We saw the nice warm temperatures early on, the late-week/early-weekend cool-down, then the return of warm temperatures to begin this week. For this forecast period, it looks like the warm, almost summer-like temperatures will continue as we move into early October.

It has been kind of interesting watching the weather models over the last couple of weeks. They keep trying to forecast cold air pushing south, but areas of low pressure seem to keep developing to our southwest and west. The counter-clockwise rotation around these lows stalls the southward progression of the cold air as warm

We saw the expected unsettled weather from our previous forecast, and in fact, the two areas of low pressure ended up being much stronger and slower moving than the models predicted, resulting in a longer period of cooler temperatures. Cooler summer temperatures usually mean daytime clouds — something most regions dealt with during a good part of last week.