Insights and Stories on Precipitation

Sep. 24, 2025 at 10:44 am CDT

Highlights: We appear to be in a fairly predictable weather pattern as the overall weather picture has been pretty good. We saw upper-level ridging last week bring average to above average temperatures across the Prairies. The forecasted area of low pressure over the eastern Prairies materialized as forecasted. As often […]

By Daniel Bezte

Sep. 17, 2025 at 11:29 am CDT

Highlights Summary Last week’s forecast did well considering the unusually blocking pattern that developed. An area of low pressure did develop as expected over the west-central U.S. It tried to push northwards and eastwards but was kept mostly in place by a strong ridge of high pressure over the central […]

By Daniel Bezte

Sep. 10, 2025 at 11:09 am CDT

Once again, the weather models did a good job with the last forecast. It correctly predicted the cool weather pattern over the eastern Prairies, which did bring some light scattered frosts late last week. It also was correct about the return of warm temperatures to start this week. Meanwhile, the […]

Sep. 2, 2025 at 2:53 pm CDT

Clear skies allowed Alberta producers to advance their harvesting operations during the week ended Aug. 26, 2025.

By Adam Peleshaty

Aug. 27, 2025 at 9:23 am CDT

This forecast period is looking straightforward as surface high pressure and upper-level ridging looks to dominate the forecast. This should bring what looks to be an extended period of sunny skies and warm to hot temperatures.

By Daniel Bezte