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File photo of storm clouds over northeastern Alberta. (ImagineGolf/E+/Getty Images)

Prairie forecast: Summer pattern making forecast difficult

Forecast issued June 4, covering June 4-11, 2025

By Daniel Bezte June 4, 2025

We start this forecast period off with an area of low pressure over far northern Manitoba that is slowly moving off into Hudson Bay. To the west, an area of low pressure is developing over the Yukon which is helping to develop a weak ridge of high pressure over Alberta. Over southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba weak high pressure is in place.

Wildfire smoke outside Calgary, August 2023. Photo: Sneha Annie Sebastian/iStock/Getty Images

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What we know about how wildfire smoke affects Prairie crops

Impacts depend on smoke quantity, plant progress, surrounding weather conditions

By Dave Bedard June 3, 2025

Prairie farmers don't have to go far right now to see and feel the effects of smoke in the atmosphere — but what their crops will experience this year is a more complicated matter.

Farmers plant saplings in a rice field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India on July 5, 2019. (File photo: Reuters/Amit Dave)

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India’s monsoon stalls after early start

Monsoon to pick up again around June 11

By Reuters June 2, 2025

Rainfall over India is likely to remain subdued for over a week as the annual monsoon’s progress has stalled after its earliest onset in 16 years, though it is likely to pick up again from June 11, two senior weather bureau officials said on Monday.

This field southeast of Delisle, Sask., could use some moisture soon to help out the recently-emerged red lentil crop. Photo: Paul Yanko

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Drought developing in northern Saskatchewan agricultural region

Almost no rain has fallen since April 1 in Nipawin and Prince Albert

By Robert Arnason May 28, 2025

In the 30 days of April, Nipawin received one millimetre of precipitation. In the first 27 days of May, the Environment Canada weather station in Nipawin recorded 1.5 mm of rain and snow.

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Prairie forecast: Mostly warm and dry weather expected

Forecast issued May 28, covering May 28 to June 4, 2025

By Daniel Bezte May 28, 2025

We start off with high pressure dominating most of the Prairies. A large surface high is sitting over the north-central U.S. This is beginning to tap into more heat and moisture, which will allow for warmer daytime highs and nighttime lows as dewpoints creep up.

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Prairie forecast: Cool and damp, then sunny and warm

Forecast issued May 21, covering May 21 to 28, 2025

By Daniel Bezte May 21, 2025

For this forecast period, it seems set to dry out and warm up. I suppose that's good for the areas that recently received significant rainfall and not so good for those regions dealing with fires.

Photo: SusanneSchulz/iStock/Getty Images

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Prairie forecast: Cool long weekend expected for Saskatchewan and Manitoba

Forecast issued May 14, covering May 14 to 21, 2025

By Daniel Bezte May 14, 2025

Across the eastern Prairies, all eyes are on the breakdown of the western trough and the resulting ejection of the final area of low pressure. The weather models are still trying to get a handle on this feature.

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More stable ENSO neutral weather conditions expected for summer

By Reuters May 8, 2025

More stable summer weather is expected to be favoured the northern hemisphere thanks to El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) neutral conditions, the United States’ Climate Prediction Center said on Thursday.

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Prairie forecast: Hot east, cool west

Forecast issued May 7, covering May 7 to 14, 2025

By Daniel Bezte May 7, 2025

We saw a strong ridge of high pressure build in last week, which brought daytime highs into the low thirties across parts of the eastern Prairies. Once the ridge collapsed, cooler air moved back in. Well, it looks like we can expect another cycle of building and collapsing ridges. Then, starting on the weekend, the weather pattern should become more energetic thanks to a strong trough of low pressure forecasted to develop off the West Coast.

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Seasonal outlook points to hot Canadian spring/summer

By Phil Franz-Warkentin May 2, 2025

Warmer than normal temperatures are to be expected across most of Canada over the next three months, according to the latest long-range seasonal forecast from Environment and Climate Change Canada as of April 30.

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Prairie forecast: Summer pattern making forecast difficult

What we know about how wildfire smoke affects Prairie crops

India’s monsoon stalls after early start

Drought developing in northern Saskatchewan agricultural region

Prairie forecast: Mostly warm and dry weather expected

Prairie forecast: Cool and damp, then sunny and warm

Prairie forecast: Cool long weekend expected for Saskatchewan and Manitoba

More stable ENSO neutral weather conditions expected for summer

Prairie forecast: Hot east, cool west

Seasonal outlook points to hot Canadian spring/summer

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