Reading Time: 3 minutes As summer works its way back into our region it’s time to pick up where we left off in our discussion of severe summer weather. In this article we’ll look at how we can predict which direction a thunderstorm might be moving. Trying to figure out just how intense and which direction a thunderstorm is […] Read more
Predicting the direction of a thunderstorm
Spring forecast: Warm and dry, or cold and wet?
Take your pick Break out the darts and blindfold; for a long-range forecast, the odds are in your favour
Reading Time: 3 minutes So far this spring winter has been able to keep a fairly good grip on most of the three Prairie provinces. While there has been the odd day here and there with above-freezing temperatures, we haven’t seen any significant melting yet. On the other side of the coin, with the exception of a few cold […] Read moreIce-free summer Arctic expected within 10 years
Confirmation Satellite technology has supported the old ice volume modelling system’s estimates
Reading Time: 3 minutes Arctic sea ice made the headlines again last week, as a new study has confirmed what some climate models have been predicting. When you hear discussions about summer melt season ice loss in the Arctic, they are talking about ice extent — that is, how much the surface area of ice has either melted or […] Read moreAre we really seeing more melting in the winter?
Analysis Our weather columnist crunches 60 years of data to see if the old-timers are right
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have received a fair number of emails over the last while asking if we are seeing more melting than we used to during the winter. These types of questions interest me as they will often have two possible answers. The first answer could be that yes, we are seeing more melting, but more often […] Read moreMore on the world’s wild weather in 2012
Reading Time: 3 minutes In our last article I finished our global look back at 2012 weather worldwide by discussing the record-low Arctic sea ice extent last September. Moving on to October, far and away the biggest weather story of that month was Hurricane/Superstorm Sandy, which ended up causing billions of dollars’ worth of damage along the eastern seaboard […] Read more
More of the world’s weather stories from 2012
Part 2 Major weather events included Hurricane Isaac, hot rain in Mecca and Greenland’s major melt
Reading Time: 3 minutes It has been a fairly active start to 2013 across much of Canada. With heavy snows over parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan, blizzard conditions over southern Manitoba, record-shattering heat over southern Ontario, and the season’s first big snowstorm in Newfoundland. If this keeps up, 2013 just might be one of those weather years for the […] Read moreInstructions on how to create your own forecast, Part 2
Reading Time: 3 minutes A couple of articles ago I introduced how you can create your own weather forecasts using the weather model data available on the WunderMap weather page located at www.wun derground.com. Hopefully some of you have taken a bit of time to check it out. In this issue I would like to go into a little […] Read more
How to find a weather forecaster whom you can’t criticize
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s been a while since I’ve discussed weather-related websites, and I figured it was about time to share one of my favourites — The Weather Underground (www.wunderground.com). The Weather Underground is literally the first-ever Internet weather website, and I think it’s the best weather website out there. I figured the best way to introduce you […] Read more
The secret of making a long-range forecast for winter
just guess You could take a scientific look at the data, or you could also just throw a dart
Reading Time: 3 minutes With winter already making an appearance across much of Alberta I thought it would be a good time to look at what the long-range forecasts are predicting for this winter. Before we take a look at these predictions, let’s first take a look at some of the factors that go into making a long-range forecast. […] Read moreThe art and science behind building a snow fence
Reading Time: 3 minutes With winter just around the corner and some of us already having its first taste, I felt that it might be appropriate to write about something winter related. As I was putting up my own snow fence the idea just came to me. I knew I had written about snow fences before, but when I […] Read more
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