Daniel Bezte

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m going to start off this week’s article with a quick look at global weather records and patterns so far this year. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the first nine months of 2010 have been the warmest ever recorded. If this pattern keeps up, 2010 will go down as the warmest […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes In a previous issue we discussed what type of winter we might expect given the current La Nińa conditions over the Pacific Ocean. Now that winter is just around the bend, climatologically speaking, I thought we should revisit our previous La Nińa winter forecast and see just what the latest and greatest long-range forecasters are […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes With all the different weather news around the world over the last month or so, I thought that in this issue we should take a little time to look at some of these events. The first item is the global temperatures for July. Depending on which data set you want to look at, the globe […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Here in Western Canada we have seen some hot weather this year, but nothing unusual or record breaking. This is not the case over a large portion of Asia this summer. I guess it’s not surprising that we would see some all-time national temperature records being broken this year, since the Earth as a whole […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ihave received several emails the past few months regarding the number of heavy rainfall events and associated flooding that has occurred around the world lately. I started poking around a little bit to see what I could find on the subject, and as usual, I came across some good research. While these studies were done […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes There are three different weather stories for us to talk about this issue. The first story is a little old already, but as we publish only biweekly this sometimes happens. The week of June 14-21 saw yet another in what seems like an endless series of strong areas of low pressure move through the Prairies […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the last issue we literally took a look at tornadoes and as I promised, this issue we are going to examine hail – something Albertans know all about. The first question when it comes to thunderstorms and hail is often “can it be too warm for hail?” The answer is yes. If the upper […] Read more

Reading Time: < 1 minute We’ve not seen much in the way of thunderstorms so far this year in Alberta, since it’s actually felt a lot more like late winter or early spring, but I’m still refusing to write (or think about) this crappy weather! Instead, we are going to continue our look at severe summer weather, and in particular, […] Read more

Reading Time: 2 minutes For this first issue of the new year, let’s finish up our El Nińo discussion. In the previous articles we discussed how the “normal” flow across the tropical Pacific Ocean is from east to west. This flow results in water being pushed away from the eastern coasts of North and South America, where it travels […] Read more