Merry Belated Christmas and Happy Early New Year!

Merry Belated Christmas Everyone and I hope you had an amazing Christmas, I am hoping you all have a joyous holiday season. I am taking a break from blogging for a week or 2. I know that theres some significant freezing rain happening today across southern Manitoba. However I won't be covering this as I am taking some holidays. Justin Oretel on Manitoba Weather Centre is keeping up with it. I wish you all the best in this holiday season. As well I hope your new years 2023 will be blessed and amazing!!! Ill have a 2022 Year in Review sometime in the new year. Remember that the reason for the holidays, is Jesus being born to be the saviour of the world more than 2,000 years ago. The Gospel is 1 Corinthians 15:1-4  God Bless. 

1 Corinthians 

15 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Significant Colorado Low Set to Slam Southern Manitoba

 Southern Manitoba will likely get impacted by a significant Colorado Low Pressure system over the next 24-48 hours. Unfortunately it looks like this system might stick around until at least Thursday. This system will have significant impacts, a batch of freezing rain ahead of the system went through southern sections of Manitoba during the overnight period into the morning today, and it’s beginning it’s impacts on southern Manitoba. This may end up being the first significant storm of the 2022-2023 winter season. Read on to find out more. 

Tuesday: Much of the day will remain cloudy and mild as we sit in the warm sector of the low pressure system, for those who sit around today wondering where all the snow is. It’s on the way. Today will be the calm before the storm, much of the snow at the moment is spiraling over northern North Dakota with snow lightly falling in western Manitoba. Winds will be light out of the south today with temperatures soaring into the high minus single digits, areas in western sections of Manitoba may see highs in the mid minus single digits. 

Tuesday Night (See above for reference): Heavy Snowfall will begin to develop over southern sections of Manitoba tonight, most of that will likely start by at least 9pm to midnight. Conditions will begin to deteriorate rapidly, snow and blowing snow will start mainly along and north of the international border. It’s hard to tell where the heaviest snowfall will occur, there’s a chance it stay’s stateside or lifts north of the border slightly. By morning it will finally reach the northern red river valley and the interlakes. This will be a multi day event so I will post snowfall totals expected at the end of this summary for the storm. Temperatures will drop into the low minus single digits.  So not a lot of cold weather expected. 

Wednesday: Snowfall will continue across much of southern sections of Manitoba this will likely move into the interlakes, parklands and much of northern Manitoba by the afternoon. Travel isn’t advised during the day on Wednesday. (See Photo for snowfall imagery above). Mild temperatures will continue for us, and bizzare enough that they will rise above zero for extreme southern parts of Manitoba near Winkler. 

Snowfall Totals: Southern sections of Manitoba especially along the American border may see as much as 20 to 30cm of snow including western portions of Manitoba. Areas along and north of highway 1 will see upwards of 10 to 20cm especially in areas of western Manitoba. Amounts will vary and if the snowfall area shifts the heavy amounts could very will shift . 

By the end of the Storm, including additional snow that falls on Wednesday night and Thursday a total of 10 to 15cm can be expected along and north of the Trans Canada Highway. 

Wednesday Night: Much of the southern sections of Manitoba will likely experience blowing snow continued with the low sitting over southern Minnesota. A brief reprieve from snow will happen heading into the overnight period before another batch of snow moves in from northwestern Ontario by morning. Temperatures will remain on the mild side as most areas only see lows in the low to mid minus single digits (-2 to -5C). 

The second Half of The week: Remnants of the low pressure system will begin to move east, and more snow and light snow will impact southern sections of Manitoba with another 2-5cm of snow likely into Friday. Temperatures will begin to drop on Thursday with highs in the upper minus single digits with the same on Thursday night. Friday and Friday night lows will drop into the high minus single digits and low minus teens right behind the low. 

Colder Weather Ending, Warmer Weather arriving. ❤️❤️

 I know how all of you are thinking; this week and past several days has been a cold one. It is no surprise as much of our region has been locked in a cold airmass, as part of the polar vortex broke off and plunged into much of central and northern Canada. Can you brave one more day of cold weather?? Southern sections of Manitoba will likely experience one more day of cold temperatures before we finally reach some mild December temperatures, how will this happen, how warm will we get, how long will this last for??  Read on to find out more in the latest blog. 

Thursday: The warmth will be likely to take some time to move into southern Manitoba, Thursday will be one of the last coldest days of the week we will still be under the influence of arctic high pressure which will cause our daytime high temperatures to still sit below normal. It’s not until Friday that high pressure system moves east and will establish a southerly flow over our region. Sunny skies are likely during the day today with high temperatures rising into the low minus teens along and south of the trans Canada highway all the way to the American border from Sask border to the Ontario border. Mainly in extreme far southwest regions will be near -10C. Areas further north in the parklands and in the interlakes and Manitoba Lakes will see values in the low to mid minus teens windchills closer to the -25C mark. 

Thursday Night: The coldest weather will likely hit us tonight before a reprieve on Friday, much of southern sections of Manitoba tonight will likely see low temperatures in the mid to high minus teens and low minus twenties especially in western sections of Manitoba along the escarpment. Partly cloudy skies are likely with much of the region seeing some periods of heavier cloud. 

Friday: Much of that warmth I promised you will finally be moving into our area, thanks to a southerly flow on the east side of high pressure. A warm front will also be advancing north ahead of low pressure. High temperatures will likely rise into the low to mid minus single digits for most. The only exception will be areas over the Manitoba lakes where values will sit in the low to mid minus teens. Windchills will be in the low to mid minus teens for most, the only areas with colder windchills will be the Manitoba lakes where that will likely be in the high minus teens. 

Friday Night: Much of southern sections of Manitoba won’t cool down much on Friday night as we sit on the western side of a high pressure system. A batch of cloud should work its way west to east during the evening with clearing in the southwest but remaining cloudy in the southeast. Also a trough will move through on Friday night. Another round of snowfall is likely with varying intensity and snowfall rates, however only 2-5cm is likely and mainly areas from Portage La Prairie, Winnipeg, east to the Ontario border up into the Gimli and Ashern areas can expect to see snowfall. Blowing snow may be an issue as well because this system will be bringing gusts up to 10-30knots which is 30-50km/h. See photo above, for reference. Temperatures will rise into the low to mid minus single digits on Friday night. Barely any windchill. 

Saturday: During the day Saturday, for those in the eastern sections snow will continue with blowing snow and travel difficult in the extreme southeast part of Manitoba. Flurries are likely for a good part of south central Manitoba and interlakes on Saturday. Temperatures will rise into the high minus single digits close to 0C in the south central and southeast part of Manitoba, areas in the southwest and west will drop into the high minus single digits. Saturday night snow will taper off leading to partly cloudy skies overnight . Overnight lows will sit in the mid to high minus single digits. Lakes may be a bit colder than that. 

Sunday: Mostly cloudy skies are expected during Sunday, there will be flurries developing later in the day with a southerly flow in place. So high temperatures will rise, well into the low to mid minus single digits. Sunday night will also be very mild with high temperatures sitting pretty much where they were during the day, only some areas may drop a degree or 2 past -5C to -6C. Windchill will not be as bad either with values closer to -10 to -16C.  

The Week Details Coming in a Seperate Blog. Snowstorm is possible coming next week on the 14th, so I will have more details soon, as the day gets closer. That will be shared in a special blog on Sunday . So far though it looks like this warmer weather pattern continues into next week.