Daniel Bezte

Reading Time: 3 minutes With spring starting to make itself felt across the region, the last thing most people want to hear is about snow. I guess I’m not most people. Springtime across the Prairies tends to bring some of the biggest snowfalls of the year, so I thought I would dig back into the weather records and share […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s hard to believe that another winter has come and gone, at least from a meteorological point of view. I know in our part of the world winter starts sometime in November and usually lasts until late March or early April, but according to most meteorologists (weather people) winter is simply the period of time […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes From a weather and agricultural point, I find this time of year to be the most difficult. Winter is still holding on, but historically we don’t see much in the way of severe weather during the second half of February. Spring is on the horizon, but is still at least three to four weeks away […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m not sure why, but the talk around the water cooler seems to a have a definite lean toward snow – in particular, just how much snow we’ve received this winter. The problem I have with these discussions is that I’m just not sure why everyone thinks we have huge amounts of snow. Maybe it’s […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Trying to forecast the weather, especially in this part of the world, is probably one of the toughest things to do. Our part of the planet has some of the most active weather and all you have to do is listen to general conversation to hear just about anyone at pretty much anytime “bashing” the […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Well, it’s that time of year again: a time to look back. Before we try to peer ahead at what 2011 might have in store for us, weather-wise, we need to take a good look back at some of the crazy weather we experienced across the Prairies during 2010. Before we really dig into the […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes As we head into the new year it seems there are some strange things going on with our world’s weather. Some people are describing it as “upside-down weather” or “backward weather,” and others are simply calling it “bizarre weather.” Any way you look at it, the weather over the past few weeks in the Northern […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Early in September I took a quick look at the kind of weather we might expect this winter. In particular, we examined the phenomenon known as La Nińa or the “anti El Nińo.” La Nińa is a cooling of the equatorial Pacific Ocean and when this occurs it can have an impact on our winter […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Most people in this part of the world are naturally interested in the weather, but it seems that over the last 10 or so years that interest in weather and weather-related instruments for the home weather enthusiast has really increased. When I first decided to start observing and recording the weather at home about a […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Some people claim that the Internet creates more problems than it solves, but if you are a weather enthusiast the Internet opens up a world of weather information that the average person wouldn’t otherwise ever have had access to. In this first look at weatherrelated websites I’m going to go through some of my favourite […] Read more