A Look Back At The Month of May, And A Chance For Us To Dry Out A Little Bit......

(Info Provided in part by Brad from A Weather Moment,
and other details by Mike the Author of this blog)


After Seeing deluges of rain over the past 10 days Southern Manitoba is finally forecast to see some sunny dry weather conditions. A high pressure system will move through our area allowing for sunny skies over the next couple of days, with daytime highs pushing back to the seasonal normal. That is about 21C for Brandon, 22C for Portage La Prairie and Winnipeg.

 Overall Precipitation Average through the month of May

Focusing on Winnipeg, we are absolutely soaked, according to Brad from AWM "So far this month, many areas of the city have seen over 100mm (3.94”) of rain, with some areas of the west end seeing closer to 125mm (4.92”)." This is definitely a huge amount of rainfall for a single in Winnipeg; the Manitoba Agricultural department released a report showing that Winnipeg has had 46% more rainfall than normal over the last 30 days. Brandon has also had close to 50% more rainfall than normal in a 30 day period, although a little less up in Dauphin and areas along the International Border where drier conditions persist. This wetter than normal month has broken a 9-month stretch of drier than normal conditions for parts of Winnipeg and the city has already shattered last years total summer precipitation. If summer is considered the months of June, July and August, our 100-125mm of precipitation in Winnipeg this month smashes the 93mm we received throughout the Summer of 2011. As well through the summer last year only 7 days the airport reported thunderstorms in the area. So far in May alone we have reported 5 thunderstorms, put that on top of the other 5 we experienced in March and April altogether we have seen 10+ thunderstorms. Looks like we are leaving 2011 in the dust in terms of our storm activity. Overall we are off to a wet start to the summer that has definitely been more promising on our storm front than last year.

Time for our Weather outlook.....

Positioning of the high pressure system at Noon Today

Over the next couple days, we will see the sun and the return of warmer temperatures. An area of high pressure will continue moving our region tonight before it enters NW Ontario Tomorrow allowing for a southwest flow to take place, bringing some warmer weather for the day. We will see a small chance for some showers and possible thunderstorms on Friday Afternoon as a trough pushes through the Red River Valley, bringing our temperatures up into the mid to high twenties for the weekend.