Insights and Stories on Weather

Prairie Forecast Update: Manitoba in retrograde

Oct. 8, 2023 at 12:34 am CDT

If you have followed my forecasts over the years, you will know that the term retrograde is almost always associated with bad weather. Well, an area of low pressure about to come on shore over Eastern Canada is expected to retrograde, or move westward, ending up around James Bay by […]

Prairie Forecast: Building western ridge to bring warming trend

Oct. 4, 2023 at 3:15 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

lake winnipeg at grand beach provincial park

Prairie Forecast Update: Wet weather for southern Manitoba, southeastern Saskatchewan

Oct. 2, 2023 at 9:15 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

CBOT weekly outlook: Soy, corn trade watch harvest weather

Sep. 27, 2023 at 6:53 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Prairie Forecast: Summer tries to hang on

Sep. 27, 2023 at 2:20 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast: Warm fall weather to continue

Sep. 20, 2023 at 1:03 pm CDT

Even with some uncertainty in the last forecast, the weather models did a surprisingly good job. At one point it looked like I was going to have to send out an update as the models started trending toward a cooler pattern, but they quickly reversed back to a warm pattern. […]

By Daniel Bezte

Hurricane Lee churns toward New England, Eastern Canada

Sep. 15, 2023 at 6:13 pm CDT

Reuters — Hurricane Lee barreled across the North Atlantic toward New England and Eastern Canada on Friday, threatening to bring drenching rains, powerful winds and a life-threatening storm surge to the region over the weekend. Lee is expected to weaken into a strong tropical storm before making landfall in southwestern […]

By Brendan O'Brien

Canada bumps up wheat harvest view, trims canola estimate

Sep. 14, 2023 at 1:25 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian farmers will harvest slightly more wheat and a bit less canola than expected earlier in summer, but dry conditions will keep both crops small, a government report showed on Thursday. Farms in North and South America, Europe and Australia are facing crop losses as extreme […]

By Rod Nickel

Prairie Forecast: One last push of summer-like temperatures

Sep. 13, 2023 at 2:02 pm CDT

As we work our way slowly into fall, we are starting to see a more fall-like pattern beginning to develop — especially when it comes to overnight lows. While the upcoming forecast does not look like we see a big fall cooldown, there is more and more deviation developing between […]

By Daniel Bezte

Nova Scotia farmers granted late AgriStability entry

Sep. 12, 2023 at 2:43 am CDT

Nova Scotia farmers who aren’t in on AgriStability for 2023 and whose operations were hit hard by weather events this spring and/or summer now have until the end of next year to enroll. The Nova Scotia and federal governments on Friday announced enrolment for the ag income stabilization program, which […]

By Dave Bedard