Daniel Bezte

Reading Time: 4 minutes During the year one of the most common questions I get asked is how I come up with all of the different topics I discuss. Usually it s fairly simple and straightforward since our region sees some of the most active weather in the world. I also receive questions about different aspects of the weather […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the last article I looked at weather-related gift ideas under $50 for the upcoming holiday season. This issue we ll continue our look, but will bump up our price range. Don t forget to check out www.ambientweather.com for probably the most complete list of weather instruments available anywhere. If we start looking in the […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Over the last five or so years the interest in home-based weather observation has increased dramatically. At the same time, the availability and affordability of these systems has also increased (I m not sure which is driving which). When I first decided to start observing and recording the weather at home, about 15 years ago, […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Another September has come and gone, and I m not sure about you, but it sure seemed to fly by. I m not sure why the month went by so fast, maybe it was because school started, but personally, I think it has to do with the beautiful weather. For those of us who love […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes The amazing summer weather that dominated the Prairies during the first week or so of September came to a freezing end by the middle of the month, as a strong area of arctic high pressure brought the growing season to a close. After seeing record-high temperatures in many places across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta during […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes Last issue we took a look at just how hot some places around the world have been this year. In this issue we ll take a quick look back at how Alberta s August weather turned out, and then look ahead to see if Alberta might finally see some warm weather in September, and hopefully […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes The global temperature numbers have been crunched for the month of July and depending on who crunched the data, July was somewhere between the third and sixth warmest on record. Land-based observations had July as the fifth warmest on record, while ocean-based observations had that region as the 11th-warmest July on record. Combining the two […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes With plenty of severe weather occurring all across the Canadian Prairies this summer, I thought we should go back and take another look at some of the aspects of severe summer weather. The first thing that pops into my mind when it comes to severe summer weather is thunderstorms, which can bring several types of […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes While a good chunk of North America has been under the grip of an intense heat wave, much of Alberta has been suffering under cool conditions with plenty of rain. The heat wave started around the middle of the month and brought a few nice days to Alberta and Saskatchewan, but it wasn’t until you […] Read more

Reading Time: 3 minutes After taking a little break from our look at severe summer weather I figured it was time to pick up where we left off back in early May. In our last article on severe summer weather we took a technical look at lightning and I ended that article by letting you know that we would […] Read more