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Forecast: Arctic high pressure continues to dominate

Forecast issued Jan. 18, 2016, covering the period from Jan. 20, 2016 to Jan. 27, 2016

By Daniel Bezte January 22, 2016

The coldest air of the winter moved in as expected last weekend, with most locations either seeing air temperatures in the -30 to -33 C range or feeling wind chills in the -40 C or colder range. Hopefully this was nature’s biggest push of cold air for the winter, but as usual, only time will

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Forecast: Classic cold mid-winter weather

Forecast issued Jan. 11, 2016, covering the period from Jan. 13, 2016 to Jan. 20, 2016

By Daniel Bezte January 14, 2016

It’s the middle of winter and, well, it feels like it. While it’s definitely been cold recently, if this ends up being our big shot of cold air for the winter, I think most of us can agree it wasn’t so bad! It does look like the colder-than-average temperatures will continue for at least one

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Forecast: Cold winter weather moving in for a while

Forecast issued Jan. 4, 2016, covering the period from Jan. 6, 2016 to Jan. 13, 2016

By Daniel Bezte January 7, 2016

After a fairly nice end to the year and an equally nice start to 2016, it looks like we’re in for some significant changes in our overall weather pattern. High pressure that brought us plenty of sunshine along with fairly mild temperatures over the weekend pulled off to the east, and by Wednesday the weather

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Forecast: Quiet, relatively mild weather to start New Year

Forecast issued Dec. 28, 2015, covering the period from Dec. 30, 2015 to Jan. 6, 2016

By Daniel Bezte December 31, 2015

Once again, Mother Nature decided to follow her own agenda, and while she only tweaked things a little bit, it resulted in fairly significant changes for our region. Last week’s storm system did not pan out as forecast, with the southern system becoming much stronger than expected, and it pushed a little further north. This

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Forecast: Hint of cold weather to end off the year

Issued: Monday, Dec. 21, 2015 – Covering Dec. 23 – Dec. 30, 2015

By Daniel Bezte December 24, 2015

Well, you have to give Environment Canada credit, as it was the only forecaster to correctly predict the behaviour of last week’s Colorado low. While the low tracked pretty close to what weather models predicted, a trough of low pressure extending to the northwest of the low brought some significant snowfall to central and eastern

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Forecast: Are we due for a pre-Christmas storm?

Issued: Monday, Dec. 14, 2015 – Covering Dec. 16 – Dec. 23, 2015

By Daniel Bezte December 14, 2015

Last week’s system, which brought significant snow to west-central Manitoba, was originally forecast to travel much farther north. This more southerly route prevented the system from tapping into colder air, which is why we stayed fairly mild. I had also forecast a system to bring snow over the weekend to extreme southern and eastern regions

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Forecast: A little more winter-like weather

Issued: Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 – Covering Dec. 9 – Dec. 16, 2015

By Daniel Bezte December 10, 2015

With little or no snow covering much of central and southern Manitoba, temperatures were able to climb well above anticipated highs last week. Several temperature records fell as a large blocking pattern brought plenty of sunshine along with mild Pacific air. These mild conditions look like they’ll persist a little longer before more seasonable temperatures

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Forecast: With high pressure comes mild temperatures

Issued: Monday, Nov. 30, 2015 – Covering: Dec. 2 – Dec. 9, 2015

By Daniel Bezte December 3, 2015

Plenty of sunshine along with fairly light snow cover allowed temperatures to moderate a little quicker than anticipated last weekend, with highs close to freezing in most areas and a few snow-free regions making it above freezing. For this forecast period it looks like the mild weather will continue. In fact, it looks like it

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Weather forecast: Looks like a nice start to winter

Issued: Monday, Nov. 23, 2015 – Covering: Nov. 25 – Dec. 2, 2015

By Daniel Bezte November 26, 2015

Last week’s forecast played out pretty close to what the weather models predicted. Winter arrived across southern and central Manitoba late last week, with the season’s first significant snowfall hitting central and eastern regions, while the southwest received just a dusting. Temperatures then fell to around average or even a little colder than average over

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Weather forecast: Big switch in weather pattern is coming

Issued: Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 – Covering: Nov. 18 – Nov. 25, 2015

By Daniel Bezte November 19, 2015

I’m not sure what cliché I should begin this forecast with. I could go with, “Sure hope you enjoyed last weekend’s weather,” or maybe, “We all knew this nice weather would come to an end eventually.” Or how about, “Don’t tempt Mother Nature by predicting that no storms will hit us!” (See last week’s forecast.)

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Forecast: Arctic high pressure continues to dominate

Forecast: Classic cold mid-winter weather

Forecast: Cold winter weather moving in for a while

Forecast: Quiet, relatively mild weather to start New Year

Forecast: Hint of cold weather to end off the year

Forecast: Are we due for a pre-Christmas storm?

Forecast: A little more winter-like weather

Forecast: With high pressure comes mild temperatures

Weather forecast: Looks like a nice start to winter

Weather forecast: Big switch in weather pattern is coming

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