Unusually Bizarre mild January weather Continues.

 Happy New Year everyone!! As we continue the new year southern Manitoba will continue to be impacted by a bizarre ,unseasonably warmer than normal weather pattern over the coming days. Multiple ridges of high pressure will continue to amplify the upper pattern over the coming days allowing for these warmer than normal temperatures to continue. Read on to find out how our weather will be for the second half of the week. 

Above: Temperatures on Thursday will be well above normal for this time of year, 10 to 28C above normal in much of Manitoba. This trend looks to continue over the coming weeks thanks to ridges that keep building over the prairie provinces. 

Thursday : Southern regions of Manitoba will experience a cloudy day, a trough of low pressure will be situated in the southwest part of Manitoba into the  parklands and northern Manitoba. A Narrow band of freezing rain and mixed precipitation well set up itself a long a line from the parklands into the northern Interlake region. Flurries will occur elsewhere in southwestern Manitoba. It will die off towards the evening hours. Temperatures for the region will rise into the low to mid minus single digits for areas of southwest, southeast, southern and central inter lakes and the red river valley areas (-1 to -5C). Areas in the parklands and northern inter lakes will hover around or slightly below 0C. Winnipeg: Cloudy, high -4C. Brandon: Cloudy, high -1C. 

Thursday night: A area of high pressure will be off to the east overnight allowing for a southerly flow to draw in warmer than normal air. Cloudy skies should be in place for the region as a area of low pressure skirts the border of Saskatchewan and North Dakota. Mild conditions will be in place overnight, under mainly cloudy skies low temperatures will drop and remain in the low to mid minus single digits (-1 to -8C). Winnipeg: Cloudy, low -4C. Brandon: Cloudy, low -1C.

Friday: Southern regions of Manitoba will start the day under mainly cloudy skies , there will be a chance for some flurries across southern sections of the province including the red river valley, inter lakes and southwestern Manitoba. Not much in the way of accumulation is expected though. High temperatures will once again soar into the low to mid minus single digits with a few areas in the Brandon and surrounding regions rising into 0 to 2C range (whoa). Expect light winds out of the south 20 to 40km/h. Winnipeg: 30% chance of flurries. High -2C. Brandon: Cloudy, 30% chance of flurries high +1C. 

Friday Night: A large ridge of high-pressure will continue to sit over the southern prairie provinces overnight into Saturday, thankfully it will allow for calm conditions with cloudy skies in place. There may be a few scattered flurries, overnight lows will drop into the low to mid minus single digits (-1 to -8C). Winnipeg: Cloudy, 30 percent chance of flurries. Low -3C. Brandon: Cloudy. 30 percent chance of flurries low -2C. 

The weekend: Looks like the warmer than normal temperature pattern will continue through the weekend, with daytime highs in the mid minus single digits (-1 to -8C). Overnight low temperatures will start to cool into the low to mid minus double digits overnight on Sunday into Monday. Enjoy the warm weather, we’re in the dead of winter , it could end at anytime !!