Daniel Bezte

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

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