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This week’s forecast: A whole lot of CCC
At the moment, the jet stream is kind of all over the place. Roughly though, it’s overhead-ish. As we look into the week, we can see lots of storm potential. In fact, every single day for the rest of this … Continue reading
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Great severe thunderstorm potential tomorrow into tomorrow night
Tomorrow afternoon, evening, and overnight; we will have very good chances at severe thunderstorms. Today, we have a chance at a thundershower, though it isn’t really too much of a chance. We might only get a quick shower this evening, … Continue reading
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August forecast: Will the pattern continue?
It’s a new month! Here’s what it may look like, divided into 5 sections: PART 1 (1st – 2nd) This part consists of today and tomorrow. As you probably know, these two days will be the final days of a … Continue reading
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Heat wave update: It’s much shorter than we thought
Back on Wednesday, I said that there was a possible larger heat wave coming this week into next week. So, this week is this week, meaning it’s time for an update. For the next few days, not much has changed … Continue reading
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Another wave of CCC weather this weekend!
This weekend because of low pressure and the western side of some zonal jet stream flow over the area will cause temperatures about 4 degrees below normal, partly cloudy to overcast skies, some scattered showers, and we can’t rule out … Continue reading
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A heat wave could be on the horizon…
The following material may contain many terms you are unfamiliar with. This time, I’ll just let you look it up. We’ve been very lacking in the heat wave department so far this summer, but it looks like pretty late in … Continue reading
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Warm on Thursday, but will it last?
Ben, is this it? After all these countless 317 days since the last legitimate summer heat wave* will we finally get one? No. In fact, both the preceding and proceeding days may end up with below average highs. So let’s … Continue reading
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Lots of rain to come tomorrow through Tuesday!
We’ve had quite a dry July so far, but soon that will change. Multiple rounds of precipitation are expected to come through overnight tonight though Tuesday morning, accumulating something like 30-40 millimetres. To show you what different models think, here … Continue reading
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Some smoke may come through on Wed. night and Thursday!
Some “fresh” Saskatchewan smoke is expected to take a stroll through the area on Wednesday night (maybe?) and Thursday. If you didn’t know, the cause of our sunny skies today is a high in northwestern Alberta. If you understand anything … Continue reading
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Where are the heat waves?
So far this summer, you may have noticed something has been absent that was very prominent over the four last summers, excluding 2022. That would be the long summer heat waves. If we look at the last month and next … Continue reading
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