Stormy Week On The Way

After what was a quiet weekend in Southern Manitoba with cloudy and cool conditions, we now can expect a return to more unsettled weather. A southwesterly flow will start taking shape over the northern plains with a ridge of high pressure building out in Eastern Canada. As a result the mean stormtrack will establish itself over the southern prairie provinces this week, bringing multiple areas of low pressure with periodic chances at showers and/or thunderstorms. The first wave of showers and possibly thunderstorms can be expected late Monday into early Tuesday (with locally heavy rainfall), as an impulse spreads moisture from the Dakotas. Much drier weather is anticipated through the Middle of the week before we see the arrival of another low pressure system that will bring a more significant chance at rainfall and possibly some strong to severe thunderstorms through the Thursday-Saturday time period.  Those looking for sustained warmth you will likely have very little luck this week! The wet weather looks like it could trek onwards until the 8th of June based on the CFSV2 outlooks, then again this is not unusual for this time of year. On average June is usually the wettest month, as increasingly warmer and humid air creeps north of the border mixing with frontal systems crossing the prairies. Severe weather will become much more likely as we get into mid June.