Warm weather ahead, for a short time. Trough of low pressure to invade the region late week.

 Southern Manitoba will be on the northern end of a area of high pressure over the northern plains, a westerly flow will develop as a result of this system. Warm weather will arrive for the second half of the week the bad news however is this will be short lived, a low pressure system will arrive for the second half of the week. Will it cause us to see rain or snow ??!!! Read on to see what kind of weather we’ll be seeing for the latter half of the week. 

Wednesday Night: Much of southern Manitoba will be under the influence of an area of high-pressure or a weak ridge. The good news is that this will allow for calm weather throughout the overnight. Unfortunately temperatures will drop off into the low minus single digits (-1 to -3C) for a majority of the area with some areas in southwestern Manitoba seeing lows in the low single digits (0 to 2C). Winnipeg: Clear, low -1C. Brandon: Clear, low 0C. Dauphin: Clear low 1C.  

Thursday: An approaching area of low pressure will slide gradually into Manitoba and will be in the region towards the latter half of the day. There is good news however it shouldn’t spoil our chances at seeing a pleasant day weather wise. Sunny skies are expected with our temperatures soaring into the mid to high teens some areas will see highs near or at 20C, for a majority of the southern half of Manitoba (14C to 20C). Cloudy skies are expected in the interlakes and parklands overnight , increasing cloud elsewhere by early morning or sunrise. The action comes in on Thursday night as a trough of low pressure swings into the region, I’m not gonna make people happy with this one but it looks like a short but strong band of snow will be likely heading into the late overnight Thursday. Snow looks to start in the parkland sections of Manitoba by the midnight time frame moving east southeast into the early morning hours reaching portage la prairie or Carberry by sunrise. Accumulations shouldn’t be too much in general varying swaths of 2 to 4cm is possible. Overnight lows on Thursday will drop into the low minus single digits (0 to -5C), with warmer temperatures in the low single digits of (0 to 4C) from Steinbach on southeastwards. Thursday: Winnipeg: Sunny, high 17C. Brandon: Sunny, high 18C. Dauphin: Sunny. high 15C. Thursday Night: Winnipeg: Clear, increasing clouds before morning low 0C. Brandon: Clear , then cloudy after midnight. 60% chance of snow before morning. Low -2C. Dauphin: Cloudy, snow beginning in the evening. Low -5C. 

Friday: A large area of low pressure will swing through on Friday morning with a cold front along with it. It’ll move into Ontario by lunch time.  Mostly cloudy skies are forecast for Friday, snow will move into the Portage la prairie area by sunrise. The Red river valley area by 7am-9am into Ontario by shortly after lunch. Temperatures on Friday will unfortunately not rise that much spotty sections of temperatures a few degrees above zero (1 to 3C) in the interlakes and southwestern Manitoba and southeastern Manitoba including the parklands. From sections of southwest Manitoba, the red river valley and southeastern Manitoba will see swaths of temperatures from -1°C to -3°C. Heading into Friday night there will be clearing skies with much cooler temperatures resulting from this cold front,, overnight lows will sit well below the normal overnight temperature pattern. There is a possibility of seeing lows in the low minus single digits in the parklands and the southwestern sections of Manitoba (-1 to -3C). The mid to high minus single digits for the rest of southern sections of Manitoba (-3 to -7C). Friday:. Winnipeg: Snow in the morning ending early in the afternoon then cloudy, high -1C. Brandon: Snow ending in the morning then cloudy high 1C. Dauphin: 30% chance of flurries in the morning then Cloudy, high 0C. Friday Night: Winnipeg: Clear, low -5C. Brandon; Clear, low -6C. Dauphin: Clear low -3C. 

The weekend: Looks like much of a southern Manitoba will be on the northern end of an area of low pressure temperature is well wildly fluctuates from being in the middle teens on Saturday to the single digits on Sunday. There could also be a chance for some rain and snow late Sunday afternoon and evening into Monday.