Category Archives: Forecast

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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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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A big heat wave, 17 degrees, two heat records. Yep, that means snow tonight!

The Alberta clipper strikes again! So, if I had to say, probably 1-3 cm. That seems about right. Almost all the forecasts say a snowfall total of about 2 centimetres, starting this evening and ending overnight. The actual reason for … Continue reading

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November outlook time!

November, overall, will probably somewhat similar conditions to October, except slightly weaker heat waves and slightly stronger cold waves. Overall, very slightly above average temperatures. For the first half, it’s short cold waves and short heat waves, with a pretty … Continue reading

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