Insights and Stories on Weather

Prairie Forecast: Sprawling high to bring dry, seasonably warm weather

Oct. 12, 2023 at 4:33 pm CDT

For the first time in a while, the last forecast period did not play out exactly as the weather models predicted, thanks mostly to a strong area of low pressure that moved westwards from the Atlantic into central Ontario last weekend and into the first half of this week. While […]

Prairie Forecast Update: Manitoba in retrograde

Oct. 8, 2023 at 12:34 am CDT

By Daniel Bezte

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

For being this far into fall, the weather models have been surprisingly accurate. Heck, I didn’t even need to send an update for the last issue! Not sure if I can be as optimistic for this forecast period, as we are moving deeper into fall and starting to see the […]

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