Daniel Bezte

Size doesn’t matter A small tornado can be very strong, 
while a large tornado can be weak

Reading Time: 3 minutes When most people hear the word tornado it usually brings about a feeling of fear and maybe even a little awe. I think the fear of tornadoes comes from the fact that they are kind of mysterious. We know they occur during thunderstorms — but which thunderstorms will produce tornadoes, where will they occur in […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes With the return of summer-like heat earlier this month, we also saw the return of severe summer weather. Plenty of thunderstorms rumbled across the Prairies, bringing examples of all of the different types of severe weather we can expect to see. There was plenty of lightning, hail, some really strong winds, heavy rains and, last […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes As summer works its way back into our region it’s time to pick up where we left off in our discussion of severe summer weather. In this article we’ll look at how we can predict which direction a thunderstorm might be moving. Trying to figure out just how intense and which direction a thunderstorm is […] Read more

the winner  Forecast that April’s weather would 
jump back and forth proved to be accurate


Reading Time: 3 minutes In our last issue we began discussing thunderstorms and severe weather. I was planning on continuing with that theme for this issue, but I think that will have to wait as another month has come to an end, which means it is time for us to take a look back at April 2012 weather and […] Read more

stuck  During March, Alberta was between two systems, 
missing the record heat farther east

Reading Time: 2 minutes With record warm weather covering much of Central and Eastern Canada during March and cold weather settling in over the West Coast, most of Alberta experienced a little bit of both. While it might have seemed and felt that March didn’t measure up this year, I think that was just because the regions to the […] Read more

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