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Prairie forecast: Spring storm could bring significant snow

Forecast issued March 26, covering March 26 to April 2, 2025

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We start this forecast period with a strong area of low pressure pushing in off the southern coast of B.C. This low will bring very mild temperatures to southern Alberta on Wednesday and into Thursday. It will then help to develop an area of low pressure over south-central regions early Thursday morning.
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Transition to drought expected to be swifter this year

Fractions of a degree of change in ocean tempartures impacts weather patterns for ag producers in caring for their livestock and crops

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Agriculture across the globe is closely linked to La Niña and El Niño when it comes to setting the weather stage for the next growing season.
File photo of moose in a Saskatchewan field. (BobLoblaw/iStock/Getty Images)
Weather

Prairie forecast: Spring battle between warm and cold continues

Forecast issued March 19, covering March 19 to 26, 2025

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For this forecast period the weather models are showing a fairly quiet weather pattern will only a couple of chances of light snow as weak systems track along the boundary between the cold Arctic air to our north and milder air to the south. This is the big question mark for this forecast period: just where will this boundary be?
Spring runoff on April 27, 2022 at the Pembina Escarpment near Miami, Man., about 40 km northwest of Winkler. (Manitoba Co-operator/Allan Dawson video screengrab)
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Prairie forecast: Dreaded Colorado low on the radar

Forecast issued March 12, covering March 12 to 19, 2025

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As I mentioned in last weeks weather article, March and April can see some of the biggest snowstorms of the year. While I don't think this one will be one for the record books, there's the potential for some wintery weather across the Prairies between now and the end of the weekend.
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Prairie forecast: Very mild west, slowly warming east

Forecast issued March 5, covering March 5 to 12, 2025

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As we ease into what can be the stormiest and snowiest time of the year on the Prairies, the big question is—are we going to see a late winter snowstorm? Well, I can say that we won’t. What I can say is the odds are low in this forecast period.
Damage is seen from a rain-wrapped tornado at Cole, Okla., just south of Oklahoma City, on April 19, 2023, in a screengrab from a social media video. (Photo: Hans Duran video screengrab via Reuters)
Corn, Soybeans, Weather, Winter Wheat

Spring weather to dominate first half of March

Large parts of Argentina, Brazil to be dry

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Be it the Canadian Prairies or the United States Midwest, spring-like weather is on its way for the first couple of weeks of March, said Drew Lerner, president and chief agricultural meteorologist for World Weather Inc. in Overland, Kan. Meanwhile, the dryness that has dominated parts of Argentina and Brazil is likely to continue for the next several weeks.
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Crops, Weather, Wheat & Chaff

U.S. hail insurer looks northward

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Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance Co. of Iowa has made its first venture outside the U.S., buying the 80 per cent of Prairie crop hail insurance firm Palliser Insurance it didn’t already own, for an undisclosed amount. FMH CEO Shannon Rutledge said in a release in February that Palliser’s “regional expertise, knowledge and accomplishments…will contribute to […] Read more
Henrique Carvalho of the University of Manitoba heads up the Regional (Tall) Tower project in Saskatchewan.
Features, Weather

Project to take high-level look at ag emissions

A CBC tower will be used to monitor nitrous oxide on the Prairies

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Glacier FarmMedia — A group of researchers, policy makers and producer organizations is repurposing part of a CBC transmission tower to get data on agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. The tower at Yorkton, Sask., will be fitted with sensors to measure agricultural nitrous oxide emissions 100 metres above the ground. The group, dubbed CanN20net, held its […] Read more

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