Weather Vane

I’m increasingly impressed with the weather models lately. Once again, they did a bang-up job with the medium-range forecast. We saw a strong area of low pressure develop across the central U.S., which brought plenty of severe winter weather to our American neighbours and to the east during last issue’s forecast period. We stayed high

The weather models have been on a bit of a roll lately as last week’s forecast once again played out close to what was predicted. We saw an abrupt return to cold weather, followed by a quick weekend warm-up, then followed by a return to colder conditions. The main storm track stayed either well to

Once again last week’s forecast began on the right track, with warm weather moving in last Wednesday followed by a cooling trend on Thursday and Friday. What it missed out on was the strength of the warming trend. The push of warm air ended up being much stronger than anticipated as the upper ridge of

The weather models were nearly bang-on with last week’s forecast. The only missteps were a little more snow than anticipated as the Alberta clipper moved through our region last Thursday and Friday, and the slightly colder air that moved in behind that system. This was not unexpected, as a stronger push of cold arctic air