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A slight cooldown complete with snow tomorrow!
After a quite toasty 10 degrees today, it’s looking like our heat wave is finally coming to an end! A strong high to the far north is moving down, and through the power of ridge and cold front is going … Continue reading
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Winds and warming!
Hey! I’m back once again after another long break from the blog. I’ve been thinking the current way I’ve been posting things here is maybe not working out. I could possibly stop doing the whole this post is short range, … Continue reading
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Quickly warming weather coming up this week!
Once upon a time, there was a high. This high currently is in the Canadian prairies, where it’s enjoying its few days in comfort, bringing quite cool weather to Alberta, but maybe a little too cold of weather basically everywhere … Continue reading
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Top 10 weather events of 2024
I’m back on the weather blog! Here’s a special post for the top 10 weather stories of 2024. 10. Early April heat Around the start of April we had a quick heat spell, and we managed to get a very … Continue reading
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Cold wave update: Ups and downs, but still below average
The temperature patterns are turning out very interesting, with the possibility of a -20 low, followed by a -5 high the next day. Overall, it looks like temperatures will be cooling over the next few days, with a once-again possible … Continue reading
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-12
Tonight and tomorrow, the temperature will be very abnormally stable near -12. Here’s what is looks like: Okay, that’s it! Just wanted to quickly mention a really weird temperature anomaly.
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Very big and unusual snowfall event tonight through tomorrow night
This one is very unusual because we are getting a LOT of accumulation with temperature below -10, in late November. A strong, prominent, and slow-moving trough will create very long-lasting snowfall, likely accumulating about 15 cm. Snow is expected to … Continue reading
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Here’s your winter forecast for 2024!
Finally we have a long-range! Overall, it looks like this year we’re going to have a weak La Niña, with oceanic Nino3.4 SST anomalies (aka the temperature of the ocean in the area measured for El Niño/La Niña) looking 1.5 … Continue reading
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A big cold wave is coming!
Hmm… Should there be such a thing as a “Snow wave?” If you’ve been looking at any sort of forecasts lately, you would probably know it’s going to be chilly next week. If you’ve been looking at any sort of … Continue reading
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The recent heat wave got us a record! How did that happen?
High-pressure system, or anticyclone. Which one do you use? From November 6-9, we had highs of 10.6, 14.3, 15.6, and 7.3. Each was at least a few degrees above average. We even had the very rare 5 degree November low … Continue reading
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