Insights and Stories on Weather

Prairie Forecast Update: Low pushes southeast instead

Jul. 17, 2023 at 1:29 pm CDT

The area of low pressure that was predicted to develop over central Alberta on Monday, July 17th still looks on track to develop. This will mean clouds and showers over north-central regions of Alberta late on Monday and into early Tuesday. There may be some thunderstorms overnight Monday over south-central […]

The durum drought

Jul. 14, 2023 at 11:23 am CDT

Feed weekly outlook: Dryness helps push up grain prices

Jul. 13, 2023 at 7:55 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

Weather outlook not great for Prairie crops

Jul. 13, 2023 at 7:34 pm CDT

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

ICE weekly outlook: Canola climbs on weather worries

Jul. 12, 2023 at 3:51 pm CDT

By Phil Franz-Warkentin

Prairie Forecast: Large Hudson Bay low dominates

Jul. 12, 2023 at 1:56 pm CDT

As the weather models correctly predicted, a large and extremely strong area of low pressure formed over Hudson Bay during the last forecast period, bringing the expected cool and unsettled weather to the eastern half of the Prairies. Over the western half of the Prairies a weak upper-level ridging brought, […]

By Daniel Bezte

Much of Canada abnormally dry or in moderate drought

Jul. 10, 2023 at 7:57 pm CDT

MarketsFarm — In a stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, a wide swath of Canada was contending with dryness, according to the latest report from the Canadian Drought Monitor. As of June 30, about 60 per cent of the country was abnormally dry to being in a moderate […]

By MarketsFarm

U.S. grains: Soybeans, corn drop on improved crop weather

Jul. 7, 2023 at 3:03 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. corn and soybean futures fell on Friday as recent welcome rains across the Midwest farm belt, and forecasts for more next week, aided crops that had been suffering under an early season drought. Soybeans, which notched a four-month high on Monday, ended down 1.9 per […]

By Karl Plume

U.S. acres surprise, Prairie acres parched

Jul. 7, 2023 at 2:43 pm CDT

New acreage estimates for this year are now out from both Statistics Canada and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, surprising Chicago corn and soybean traders, less so for Canadian canola and wheat market observers. Glacier FarmMedia’s Gord Gilmour and MarketsFarm weather and crops specialist Bruce Burnett discuss those estimates — […]

Prairie Forecast: Big change in weather pattern

Jul. 5, 2023 at 6:29 pm CDT

Most people have been saying that June felt like July and the weather statistics agreed. Well, if the weather models are correct, it’s looking like July will feel more like June — at least for the next forecast period. Here is the big picture before we dive into the details […]