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Prairie forecast: Mild with a chance of showers

A large area of low pressure stalled out just south of the Prairies early this week, bringing some much-needed significant rains that stretched from western Manitoba through Saskatchewan and into Alberta. This low is forecasted to rapidly break down over the next day or so and make way for some nice late-spring weather.

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Prairie forecast: Cool and unsettled weather to continue

Forecast issued May 1, 2024, covering May 1-8

The weather and subsequent forecasts lately have been—to state it simply—a mess. A very active but difficult to forecast pattern has developed across much of Canada and the northern U.S. states. This has brought damp and cool weather to most regions of the Prairies and unfortunately, it looks like this weather will be sticking around at least until the weekend.


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Prairie forecast: Typical spring weather expected; not dry, not wet

Forecast issued April 24, 2024; covering: April 24 – May 1

It looks like this will be a good news, bad news forecast. For those of you hoping for rain, it may be good news. For those wanting things to dry out enough to get out working, it's a bit of bad news. The one thing, which is typical for spring forecasts, is that there's a fair bit of uncertainty.



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Prairie forecast: Spring has sprung but winter might not be done

Forecast issued April 10, 2024, covering April 10 to 17

Spring has definitely sprung across the prairies with only a few locations still having snow cover. Spring is a notorious time for forecasting as warm air builds to the south while cold air still sits to the north. That means this forecast period looks both easy and hard.

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Prairie forecast: Cooler and unsettled west, mild and dry east

Forecast issued April 3, covering April 3 to 10

In a nutshell, it looks like Saskatchewan and Manitoba will see dry weather and nice, warm, spring temperatures. Alberta is going to have to deal with colder air being drawn southwards into the developing storm system over the south-central U.S. Along with the colder air, southern Alberta may deal with some more snow as moisture is pulled northward and then westward on the eastern side of the low.



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Prairie forecast: Spring trying to regain control

Forecast issued March 27, covering March 27 to April 3, 2024

The main weather maker will be a trough of low pressure forecasted to develop over the northwestern U.S. today, which will then track eastwards over the next several days.