Daniel Bezte

Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the first half of December the Northern Hemisphere has seen some fairly wild weather. Our part of the world has seen some record cold weather, whereas Alaska and Florida have seen record warmth. Over Europe and the Middle East there have been wild temperature swings and early-winter snows in places that rarely see snow. […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the last issue I promised we would take a look at the long-range winter forecasts, but before we do that I have to take a moment to discuss Super Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines a couple of weeks ago. First, just for clarification, a typhoon is the same thing as a hurricane. Typhoon […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes In September, most regions across Alberta saw temperatures that were a good 2 C to 4 C above the long-term average. Central and northern regions were fairly dry as well, making it a very nice September for those areas. Over southern regions temperatures were probably the warmest, but along with warmer temperatures came a little […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the last issue I began to look at the latest release by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In that issue I looked at just what the report is, who creates it, and how it is put together and reviewed before being released. I then began to explore the first key pieces of […] Read more

Reading Time: 4 minutes I have to start this article off with a bit of a correction. In the article I wrote a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that the Northwest Passage was not open this year. What I should have said was that the Northwest Passage was not ice free this year. According to the National Snow […] Read more

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