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 moreMore of the world’s weather stories from 2012
Instructions 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
September — not warmer, but really warmer than average
Reading Time: 3 minutes Well, that was one heck of a September across pretty much all of Alberta — if you like it warm and dry that is. Looking back at my last article, it seems as if I jumped the gun when I talked about “Indian summer.” Looking across Alberta, it would appear that most regions have experienced […] Read more
Warm, wet summer
Reading Time: 2 minutes For many of us, summer has now come and gone. That is, if you consider summer to run from June through the end of August. Looking back at the summer of 2012 across Alberta, we could quickly sum it up as being warmer than average over nearly all regions, and near to above average for […] Read more
A warm and wet July, but as warm as Needles?
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you read my last article you might remember that I was originally going to take a look back at the weather across Alberta over the last few months, but problems with Environment Canada’s data feed prevented me from doing so. Since then I have been able to poke around a little bit, and I […] Read more
The U.S. drought — it’s now expected to last till October
skeptic reversal New study acknowledges the existence and the cause of global warming
Reading Time: 3 minutes This issue’s article was going to be a look back at the weather across Alberta so far this summer, but Environment Canada seems to be having some significant difficulties with its online data feeds, as several Environment Canada stations either have no data available for the last month or two or are missing chunks of […] Read moreWill we dodge the heat the U.S. is seeing?
smashed Records are being broken for the most consecutive days with highs of 100 F and up
Reading Time: 3 minutes When trying to come up with ideas to write about, it always seems a good idea to create a series of articles, such as the one I have been working on about severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. For those of you who routinely follow these articles you are expecting an article about how tornadoes are formed. […] Read moreCyber-Savvy Farmer
