Calm weekend In Store, Chances for showers and slightly cooler weather. Heat wave soon?

 Southern sections of Manitoba lately has been experiencing significantly cooler than average temperatures and occassional thunderstorms over the last few weeks. This weather pattern is expected to continue for the next couple of days before we head into what could be a interesting week ahead. 

This weekends weather update will be shorter and more of a summary as there isnt much in the way to talk about weather wise. A large area of low pressure in northern Manitoba will likely continue to provide periods of sun and cloud and intermittent showers especially on the day Saturday afternoon as the area of low pressure begins to move south over southern sections of Manitoba. On Saturday cloudy skies are likely. Temperatures will be on the cooler side as a northerly flow and northerly winds sit over our area with highs on Saturday reaching the mid 20's before a trough sinks south with rain moving in for most except areas of far southwestern Manitoba. Overnight lows will likely The good news however is that most of the unsettled weather looks more likely on Saturday night as the low sags south. Temperatures on Saturday night will drop into the low to mid teens.

Sunday will be very cool than normal, with highs about 10C below average seeing high temperatures only in the mid to high teens in the southeast and low 20's in the southwest. I am concerned about the risk to plants and crops on Sunday night when lows could drop below 10C in the Red River Valley, pembina valley and areas of the southwest. Basically any area that isnt going to experience cloudcover overnight which would be the cloud free forecast areas of south central and southwestern Manitoba. In general lows between 8C and 15C are likely on Sunday night.

The Week Ahead: Slightly cooler temperatures will continue with gradual warming likely into the week, an interesting feature will build and that would be the building of a ridge of high pressure in the southwest united states, with a chance very soon that some of that heat could impact us. There will be a few short waves riding over top of it bringing a chance for more unsettled weather and building heat with thunderstorm chances. More info coming on Monday.