Daniel Bezte

battleground  Alberta may be on the dividing line between 
two patterns, leading to unstable weather

Reading Time: 3 minutes For those of you who have read this column over the last year or so you might have figured out that I really don’t like the idea of using average temperatures. We almost never have average temperatures, so why do we use this as a gauge as to how warm or cold a particular day […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes As we slowly make our way into 2012, I thought we should take a little bit of time to look back at how 2011 turned out globally. I’ve already mentioned that the last half of 2011 saw our region of the world see record-warm temperatures along with very dry conditions. Globally the Earth in 2011 […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes In this issue we’ll take a look at Canada’s top five weather stories from 2011. Interestingly, all five occurred, at least in part, in Western Canada. The first and indisputably biggest weather story happened across the southern and central parts of the two provinces just to the east of Alberta. Before last winter had even […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes A couple of weeks ago I started an article about the North Atlantic Oscillation or NAO. We began our look at this particular weather pattern because all of the talk about the unusually warm winter so far this year seems to be tied to it. To understand just what is going on we had to […] Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes During the year one of the most common questions I get asked is how I come up with all of the different topics I discuss. Usually it s fairly simple and straightforward since our region sees some of the most active weather in the world. I also receive questions about different aspects of the weather […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the last article I looked at weather-related gift ideas under $50 for the upcoming holiday season. This issue we ll continue our look, but will bump up our price range. Don t forget to check out www.ambientweather.com for probably the most complete list of weather instruments available anywhere. If we start looking in the […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the last five or so years the interest in home-based weather observation has increased dramatically. At the same time, the availability and affordability of these systems has also increased (I m not sure which is driving which). When I first decided to start observing and recording the weather at home, about 15 years ago, […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Another September has come and gone, and I m not sure about you, but it sure seemed to fly by. I m not sure why the month went by so fast, maybe it was because school started, but personally, I think it has to do with the beautiful weather. For those of us who love […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes The amazing summer weather that dominated the Prairies during the first week or so of September came to a freezing end by the middle of the month, as a strong area of arctic high pressure brought the growing season to a close. After seeing record-high temperatures in many places across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta during […] Read more