Insights and Stories on Forecast

Updated prairie forecast: unsettled start as sub-arctic high builds in

Jul. 26, 2023 at 3:24 pm CDT

Update: A low tracking through central prairies is a little weaker than expected. This will result in less precipitation with showers, thundershowers, and storms being less widespread. Another issue is the smoke which can be difficult to predict. Areas with smoke we see cooler than expected daytime highs. An upper […]

Prairie Forecast: Summer heat to build back in

Jul. 19, 2023 at 8:31 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast Update: Low pushes southeast instead

Jul. 17, 2023 at 1:29 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast: Large Hudson Bay low dominates

Jul. 12, 2023 at 1:56 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast: Big change in weather pattern

Jul. 5, 2023 at 6:29 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Dry, hot Canadian summer expected

Jul. 4, 2023 at 5:58 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — Warmer-than-normal temperatures are expected across all of Canada for the next three months, with average precipitation in most of the agricultural areas of the Prairies. That’s according to the latest long-range seasonal forecast from Environment Canada, released Friday. The government department calls for a 50-70 per cent chance […]

By MarketsFarm

Prairie Forecast: Alberta low to bring bit of a cooldown

Jun. 29, 2023 at 5:46 pm CDT

After a fairly active weather pattern over the last few days, at least across the eastern half of the Prairies, it looks like most regions will see much quieter few days to start off this forecast period. Weak upper-level ridging combine with a broad but weak area of surface high […]

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast Update: Low to push across region’s east

Jun. 26, 2023 at 2:42 pm CDT

There has been a little bit of a shift in the overall weather pattern according to the latest weather model runs. The arctic high is dropping east-southeast as expected and will be around James Bay by the middle of this week. Along the southern boundary of the arctic air, the […]

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast: Shift in the pattern

Jun. 21, 2023 at 8:24 pm CDT

The weather pattern that brought some record heat to the eastern Prairies, and some significant rains to parts of Alberta, looks like it will be undergoing a bit of change during this forecast period. The overall flow across the Prairies appears as though it will become predominantly northwesterly as an […]

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast Update: Alberta low to break in two

Jun. 19, 2023 at 1:57 am CDT

So far, the general forecast seems to be on track, but there have been some changes. The area of low pressure expected to develop and move north through Alberta is still on track but the weather models now it show it winding itself up across central and northern Alberta on […]

By Daniel Bezte