Back To Seasonable Weather as our Snow Drought Continues

(Top Left: 2012 winter snowbanks, Bottom Left: 2011 winter snowbanks From Winnipeg Free Press) 

After a week of unseasonably cold weather we will now be welcomed with warmer and more seasonable weather for this time of year, as the area of arctic high pressure moves east towards the Atlantic provinces. Temperatures will rise towards the minus single digits for the middle of the week and maybe even close to the freezing mark on Wednesday. The main story of the coming weeks will be the continuning snow drought. All weather models suggest the main areas of precipitation being far away from the Province of Manitoba either all the way up north, or all the way down south. Snowfall has been rare this winter for Winnipeg and The RRV unless you go north, overall we have had well below normal precipitation for the past couple months. From the beginning of winter (Dec 22) all the way through to (Feb 12) we have had about 48 cm of snow, compare it to last year this time where we had 116.6cm of snow.This time last year we were preparing for a major flooding scenario, this year a potential drought.
(Some of the data was taken from Rob's Blog)

(Right: Brett Andersons ECMWF Weekly model


As For the coming weeks expect a few odd cold days, mixed in with several warm periods. Although the Weekly ECMWF model is pointing towards an early start to spring with very warm weather into the beginning of march, as the AO switches over to postive. Who knows spring may just be around the corner. Stay Tuned I'll have my spring outlook coming up in mid march as from the help of Theweathernetwork...........