Weather Vane

Western Manitoba was once again hit with significant rains late last week as a strong but luckily fast-moving Colorado low lifted almost due north through this region, bringing some heavy rain and thunderstorms. The table shows some of the rainfall totals as compiled by Environment Canada. While the low did bring significant rains to this

I have to start this article off with a bit of a correction. In the article I wrote a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that the Northwest Passage was not open this year. What I should have said was that the Northwest Passage was not ice free this year. According to the National Snow

As some regions experienced their first fall frost this weekend, I felt it was time to revisit this topic. The first question I am usually asked about fall frost is “When should the different areas of agricultural Manitoba expect to receive their fist fall frost?” To analyze this, we must first determine how frost is

Breezes off lakes Winnipeg and Manitoba can help build thunderstorms when they wouldn’t develop otherwise

Last week I asked for questions and ideas for different weather articles and I did get several good questions. Just remember this weather page is for you, so once again, feel free to email me any questions or topic ideas that you may have, at [email protected]. The one question that really stood out for me

It took awhile, but in our part of the world we are now in a heat wave. Luckily for us it’s near the end of summer, so the intensity doesn’t look to be too bad. If you are trying to harvest, the warm/hot, dry weather is probably in your favour, as long as you have

If caught outdoors, you want to be as short as possible and have as little contact with the ground as possible

I was having a hard time coming up with a weather article for this week. (Remember, feel free to email me any questions or topic ideas that you have at [email protected].) As I sat down to write, a line of severe thunderstorms developed and pushed through my region. The storm didn’t have much in the

Temperatures warmed up as predicted over the last forecast period, but the overall weather pattern didn’t quite play out as expected. The upper ridge of high pressure was slower in developing and pushing east. This allowed a few weak upper level systems to zip through southern and central Manitoba last weekend, bringing clouds and triggering

The boundary between the cold and warm air is where the majority of our ‘weather’ or storm systems occur

If you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute.” This is probably one of the most used and often true statements made about the weather in our part of the world. We live in a zone that stretches right around the globe, where warm air moving northward battles it out with cold air surging