The Weather Vane is prepared by Daniel Bezte, a teacher by profession with a BA (Hon.) in geography, specializing in climatology, from the University of Winnipeg. Daniel has taught university-level classes in climate and weather and currently operates a computerized weather station at his home near Birds Hill Park, on 10 acres he plans to develop into a vegetable and fruit hobby farm.

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Heavy rain fell across a good portion of southern Manitoba over the holiday long weekend but due to

the holiday an updated precipitation map is not yet available. So instead of a map, here is a table of

precipitation amounts (in millimetres) recorded over the long weekend.

Schanzenfeld Miami

Winkler Carman

Morden Treherne

Manitou Letellier

Morris

Glenboro

Elm Creek Wawanesa

Pierson

Cypress River

Virden Gretna

McCreary Hamiota

Minnedosa Brandon

PRECIPITATION (MM) 49.8

48.6

46.0 44.6

43.0 41.6

41.2 41.0

40.2 40.2

39.2 37.0

35.8 34.6

33.8 31.2

30.3 30.0

29.6 27.4

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Melita Souris

Carberry

Boissevain Portage

Gladstone

Teulon Dugald

Winnipeg

Dauphin

Pilot Mound Steinbach

Gimli

Pinawa

Arborg Birtle

Eriksdale

Fisher Branch Russell

PRECIPITATION (MM)

25.8 25.0

24.4

23.4 23.0

21.1

20.8 20.4

19.5

19.2

18.8 18.0

17.9

16.6

15.4 14.2

13.8

9.1 8.6