Insights and Stories on Weekly Forecast Prairies

Aug. 30, 2023 at 2:06 pm CDT

It’s a straightforward forecast for this period as the general weather pattern looks to be pretty quiet. It starts with a large area of high pressure centred over the Great Lakes with a weak area of low pressure over Alberta. The Great Lakes high will put sunny skies and warm […]

By Daniel Bezte

Aug. 23, 2023 at 12:00 pm CDT

Once again, the weather models are in good agreement so confidence in this forecast is fairly high. The only possible issue is that the different weather systems are rather weak which means timing of the systems can change easily. This forecast period starts off with two weak areas of low […]

By Daniel Bezte

Aug. 21, 2023 at 1:54 am CDT

An interesting weather pattern is currently in place across western North America with Tropical Storm Hilary taking an unusual northerly track as it comes in off the Pacific Ocean south of California. Tropical storms or hurricanes in that region normally do one of two things: they either recurve back out […]

By Daniel Bezte

Aug. 16, 2023 at 2:24 pm CDT

After going through a couple of weeks of tough forecasting, with little agreement among the weather models, this forecast period is looking a little more stable with the two main weather models for our region in basic agreement. We start off this forecast with a low over Manitoba that is […]

By Daniel Bezte

Aug. 14, 2023 at 1:46 am CDT

The weather models seem to have come to an agreement on the area of low pressure forecasted to come in off the Pacific around mid-week. It looks like the energy from this system will quickly spin up an area of low pressure over north-central Alberta on Tuesday. The low will […]

By Daniel Bezte