Thursday, March 05, 2009
Dense fog west.. freezing rain south
Travel outside Winnipeg is a bit hazardous this morning due to adverse weather conditions over southern MB. To the south of Winnipeg, a nearly stationary band of freezing rain along the US border has produced very icy conditions over the southern Red River valley, with numerous vehicles in the ditch off Hwy 75. Meanwhile, further west, dense fog is producing near zero visibilities over areas like Brandon, and Dauphin. Caution is advised if travelling outside Winnipeg today.
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It sure seems like we have gotten a lot of freezing rain events this year!
ReplyDeleteMore than normal I'm sure!
This morning forecast for Winnipeg was just for cloudy skies!
ReplyDeleteNow as of 1:00 p.m look like a large of rain/ freezing rain has formed!
Should be in the Winnipeg area in the next hour or so! The temperature is just above freezing so it should not be freezing!
Rain, snow, rain, snow.
ReplyDeleteKeeps switching between the two on my Accuweather display on Firefox browser.
All snow here in Steinbach.
ReplyDelete3.4mm of rain so far.
GLB is bringing a pre-storm area of snow through southern MB on Monday, while it has trended east with the main storm system Tuesday into Wednesday. ECMWF has also trended further east with Tuesday's storm system, so it's looking like models are agreeing that southern MB will dodge this bullet.. at least for now.
ReplyDeletewe will not dodge the cold snap!
ReplyDeleteHow cold do you think we could get with the overnight lows next week???
The latest NAM/WRF run is giving the system for next Tuesday new life. It is showing a serious blizzard, with a good snow accumulation.
ReplyDeleteThe models are STILL all over the place with the blizzard next week!
ReplyDeleteSome put in Minneapolis some grand forks
Either way.... someone is gonna get a huge storm!
Yeah, this one has my spidey-sense tingling. I blogged about it (shameless plug). :)
ReplyDeleteDave
Easy to overlook an interesting little disturbance for Sunday overnite. Subtle wave along arctic front is progged to tap decent low level jet and theta e ridge over the midwest. Very strong temperature contrast and good frontogenetic forcing could allow for snow bands to set up. Right now GFS shows this system passing to the SE.. however if main brunt of cold air advection slows down a little, SE Manitoba may be affected.
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