Insights and Stories on Forecast

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 […]

By Daniel Bezte

Oct. 4, 2023 at 3:15 pm CDT

Last week’s weather forecast played out close to what the weather models were predicting. Western regions saw cooler-than-average temperatures move in, while eastern regions saw a brief return to summer-like temperatures. This pattern was a response to an area of low pressure that spun up over the central U.S. during […]

By Daniel Bezte

Oct. 2, 2023 at 9:15 pm CDT

The strong area of low pressure that the weather models have been forecasting to impact the eastern half of the Prairies on Tuesday and Wednesday is starting to take shape. The latest model runs show the low pushing northward into western Manitoba early on Tuesday morning and then moving off […]

By Daniel Bezte

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

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