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Forecast: Weather stuck in a cold pattern

Covering the period from April 15 to April 22

By Daniel Bezte April 16, 2020

We’ll begin this forecast with the same words I used in the last forecast. For those of us who are stuck working from home and practising social distancing, wishing we’d see some nice warm weather, I’m afraid we’re out of luck for this forecast period. The weather models have been in very good agreement that

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Forecast: More sun than clouds, but cool

Covering the period from April 8 to April 15

By Daniel Bezte April 9, 2020

If you recall last week’s forecast, I didn’t have a lot of confidence in the weather models, but as it turned out, they did a fairly good job. The one thing they missed out on was the intensity of the snow with the storm system that brought a widespread 10 to 20 cm of snow

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Forecast: Winter doesn’t want to leave

Covering the period from April 1 to April 8

By Daniel Bezte April 2, 2020

If I’ve said it once, I have said it at least a hundred times: Forecasting the weather at this time of the year is hard. If you have been following the weather models over the last couple of weeks you would know what I mean. One day they forecast a big warm-up and next a

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Forecast: Spring weather slow to move in

Covering the period from March 25 to April 1

By Daniel Bezte March 26, 2020

Well, my last forecast was not too bad — a little optimistic on temperatures, maybe, but the overall pattern was handled pretty well by the weather models. The main reason is that we seem to be stuck in this particular weather pattern, so until something big comes along to change it, expect more of the

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Forecast: Colder-than-average temperatures expected

Covering the period from March 18 to March 25

By Daniel Bezte March 19, 2020

For those of you who regularly read my forecasts, you will know I hate to write forecasts in the spring and fall — but especially in the spring. The yearly fight between cold and warm air in the spring often makes it difficult to accurately predict the weather beyond about five days. Since I write

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Forecast: One final shot of arctic air ahead?

Covering the period from March 11 to March 18

By Daniel Bezte March 12, 2020

As expected, we did see an active storm track during the last forecast period, and as often happens, the weather models struggled. The biggest issue the weather models seem to have is with the intensity of the cold air. The models keep trying to drop in some fairly cold air, but so far, we have

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Forecast: Storm track setting up to our north

Covering the period from March 4 to March 11

By Daniel Bezte March 5, 2020

Last issue’s forecast did an OK job. It captured the overall pattern, but was a little off regarding temperatures and overpredicted the amount of snow with a weak area of low pressure. This forecast period looks like it will be an interesting one. Weather models show the main storm track setting up across the central

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Forecast: Winter and spring battling it out

Covering the period from February 26 to March 4

By Daniel Bezte February 27, 2020

For the first time in a while, last issue’s forecast played out pretty much as the weather models predicted. Mild air moved in last weekend and was followed by a shot of colder air during the middle part of this week. For this forecast period, it looks like we will start off with an area

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Forecast: Is spring fighting its way in early?

Covering the period from February 19 to February 26

By Daniel Bezte February 20, 2020

As I pointed out at the beginning of last week’s forecast, when there is a switch in the weather pattern, the devil is in the details and we definitely noticed that last week. The weather models correctly forecasted a couple of outbreaks of cold arctic air. What they failed to get right was just how

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Forecast: Colder weather definitely moving back in

Covering the period from February 12 to February 19

By Daniel Bezte February 13, 2020

Any time we see a switch in the weather pattern, the weather models tend to struggle a little bit on the day-to-day details, and we saw this happen with last week’s forecast. Colder air tried to move in several times, but these cold intrusions only lasted a day or so before milder air moved back

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Forecast: Weather stuck in a cold pattern

Forecast: More sun than clouds, but cool

Forecast: Winter doesn’t want to leave

Forecast: Spring weather slow to move in

Forecast: Colder-than-average temperatures expected

Forecast: One final shot of arctic air ahead?

Forecast: Storm track setting up to our north

Forecast: Winter and spring battling it out

Forecast: Is spring fighting its way in early?

Forecast: Colder weather definitely moving back in

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