Category Archives: Precipitation

Snow isn’t over yet! More is still to come…

For about the third time this month, this will probably be the last significant snowfall event this season. Starting tomorrow, a low will slowly track across the prairies, bringing an extensive clouds bank set to bring swaths of snow. Here … Continue reading

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March overview

This March, big temperature inversions will continue. Of course. Here’s an overview of what we may see: First of all ,a big heat wave for about the first 1.5 weeks. This is the one we’re in now. Coming up, at … Continue reading

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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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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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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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October recap – Firsts, lasts, and stats!

I should get “Firsts and Lasts” trademarked. October brought a severely low amount of records – none! That means this is just all firsts and lasts, plus a few other things. Firsts and Lasts: Next up, here some stats: I … 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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Snow is coming tonight!

Yes, that’s right. Note: By tonight I meant tonight and tomorrow morning, because it’s more than just tonight. For the snowfall total, it’s somewhere between 2 and 6 centimetres, with it most likely landing around 4. The snowfall is looking … Continue reading

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Temperatures are taking a massive plunge into the negatives and snow totals into the positives tomorrow!

Conditions are NOT looking good for tomorrow morning! The classic trifecta of bad commute is about to arrive: Cold, wind, and snow. No, you didn’t read that incorrectly. Snow. Let’s start off with the temperature, where the it’ll probably not … Continue reading

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