Insights and Stories on Weekly Forecast Prairies

Prairie forecast: One more shot of warm weather?

Nov. 15, 2023 at 9:36 am CST

It looks like the well above average temperatures that flooded across the prairies over the last week or so will be coming to an end, at least eventually. The good news is that it doesn't look like it will be an abrupt end with well below average temperatures moving in.

Prairie Forecast: False start to winter as mild air returns

Nov. 8, 2023 at 1:29 pm CST

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast: Nice, quiet early-winter weather

Nov. 1, 2023 at 12:36 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast Update: Warmer air not in the cards

Oct. 30, 2023 at 10:58 am CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast: Arctic high slowly moving out

Oct. 25, 2023 at 9:20 pm CDT

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast Update: Cold and some snow coming

Oct. 22, 2023 at 6:29 pm CDT

I have been waiting to see if the weather models were going to come into agreement on the upcoming shift on our weather pattern and for the most part, they have: it’s going to get cold! A large area of low pressure has formed over the eastern Arctic and the […]

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast: Warmer, colder… then snow?

Oct. 18, 2023 at 3:00 pm CDT

Not surprisingly for this time of the year, the last forecast didn’t play out exactly as expected, but overall, it was pretty darn close. The large area of high pressure that was forecasted to develop over the northern Prairies and slowly drop southward did just as forecast, but over the […]

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast: Sprawling high to bring dry, seasonably warm weather

Oct. 12, 2023 at 4:33 pm CDT

For the first time in a while, the last forecast period did not play out exactly as the weather models predicted, thanks mostly to a strong area of low pressure that moved westwards from the Atlantic into central Ontario last weekend and into the first half of this week. While […]

By Daniel Bezte

Prairie Forecast Update: Manitoba in retrograde

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

Prairie Forecast: Building western ridge to bring warming trend

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