Daniel Bezte

Reading Time: 3 minutes As we slowly ease our way into fall I thought it might be a good time to take a bit of a look around and explore some of the bigger weather stories from around North America and the world. Let‘s begin our look at the top and bottom of the world by examining what has […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes From a meteorological point of view we have officially entered into fall (September, October, and November). After a mediocre summer across most of the Prairies, the big question on most people’s minds is whether we’ll be treated to a nice warm fall or will winter make early inroads bringing more cold than mild weather this […] Read more

The boundary between the cold and warm air is where the majority 
of our ‘weather’ or storm systems occur


Reading Time: 3 minutes If you don’t like the weather, just wait a minute.” This is probably one of the most used and often true statements made about the weather in our part of the world. We live in a zone that stretches right around the globe, where warm air moving northward battles it out with cold air surging […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes So far in our look at severe thunderstorms we’ve looked at the three main severe weather threats: heavy rain, hail, and wind or tornadoes. What we haven’t discussed or looked at is why do some thunderstorms become severe while others do not, and how can you tell if a thunderstorm moving towards you is going […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Sometimes it’s tough to come up with a topic to write about, especially when the weather is being quiet. For this issue I have the opposite problem, but it’s making it just as tough to come up with a topic. Usually I don’t discuss extreme weather events in detail, as by the time you read […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Thanks to continued budget cuts by our government, reliable weather data is getting harder and harder to get. At the beginning of each month I like to look back and see what the weather has been like across our part of the world, but to do this reliably I need to look at weather records […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes After a fairly cool spring with few if any thunderstorms, summer has started to make headway into the Prairies over the last few weeks. In some years summers come and go with only the odd thundershower and maybe one big thunderstorm, but in other years every storm that comes along seems to bring severe weather. […] Read more

The never-ending winter was caused by stubborn ridges 
of high pressure over the West Coast and Greenland


Reading Time: 3 minutes Like most of central North America, Alberta was not able to dodge the cold weather that just didn’t seem to want to go away this spring. Central North America felt the effects of what is known as a blocking pattern. This is when the jet stream gets stuck (for the most part) in the same […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes I recently came across a weather article that was a purely academic discussion about radiational cooling. It was one of those articles that at first glance seemed to be purely a discussion for true weather geeks, meteorologists and university professors, with very little if anything to do with an everyday understanding of the weather, at […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Every once in a while the atmosphere behaves in what I call a textbook example. The atmosphere is a fairly chaotic system, that’s why it is so difficult to forecast the weather. If you take the time to read and try to understand how the experts think it all works, you end up learning the […] Read more