This was the scene in Grand Beach yesterday as temperatures soared to the 30 degree mark over much of southern MB Saturday. People flocked to the beaches on the last official weekend of the summer of 2009, a summer that was plagued by rain and cool temperatures. Locals say this is the busiest they have ever seen Grand Beach in September.. thanks to some late summer weather that has persisted most of the month. Click here for the Free Press article on summer's last hurrah.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Summer in September!
This was the scene in Grand Beach yesterday as temperatures soared to the 30 degree mark over much of southern MB Saturday. People flocked to the beaches on the last official weekend of the summer of 2009, a summer that was plagued by rain and cool temperatures. Locals say this is the busiest they have ever seen Grand Beach in September.. thanks to some late summer weather that has persisted most of the month. Click here for the Free Press article on summer's last hurrah.
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WOW!
ReplyDeleteIt look like all of southern Manitoba is at that beach!!! LOL
Rob!
I was looking at the models this morning and something caught me eye!
If you look North ( way north) up in Baffin Island some of the storms they get up there this time of year is amazing!
Some of the low pressures systems are as deep as a category 1 hurricane with a amazing wind field!
Exceeding the monthly MEAN Record for SEPT appears a sure thing. 16.8C
ReplyDeleteWill SEPTEMBER 09 be the Warmest Month of the 2009?
Sounds like some parts of Winnipeg are getting some very heavy downpours!!
ReplyDeleteWe had a quick little downpour in Charleswood around noon.. got about 4 mm. Most of south and east Winnipeg missed these showers. Radar shows little activity south of us, with heavier showers to our southwest moving north. I'm not sure Winnipeg will see too much more rain this afternoon into this evening unless radar fills in to our south and east.
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ReplyDeleteEntering some projected numbers for the rest of the month gives us a monthly mean around 18C.. which would indeed make this September the warmest month of the year (July 16.5C, Aug 17.2C). As I mentioned earlier, such an occurrence has never happened before in Winnipeg since records began in 1872.
Talking about heavy downpours take a look down south into Alabama where EPIC and HISTORIC are words used to describe there rainfall!
ReplyDelete9 -15 inches of rainfall reported!
Truly EPIC.
Tomorrow, Sept 22nd on the gardeners calendar is the NORMAL first day of frost in Winnipeg.
ReplyDeleteThe latest date for the first frost (-0.1C) since 1939 is October 30th 1963 of the summer that almost never ended.
On what date do you predict/guess it will occur ?
Accuweather is predicting -3C (-8WC) on the 30th and -2C and -3C on Oct 4th and 5th.
ReplyDeleteMy personal forecast is Oct 13th after the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend.
I'd love to have an October like 1963 follow this September, but that may be asking for too much. That October was as amazing as our September is this year. Every day that month was above normal with 16 days in the 20s, including 7 of 25C or more. Only 2 days of measurable rain. As you mentioned, no freeze until the 30th which is incredible for this part of the world. The dry warm pattern extended throughout the midwest and the Great Lakes, with Chicago registering their all time October high of 34C on Oct 6th of that year.
ReplyDeleteAs for frost, I'm willing to bet that the airport would have registered a much earlier freeze date that year if the weather station was located where it currently is. The current site is notorious for cold air drainage, which makes it susceptible to earlier freezes than previous locations. I'm sure those lows of 0.6C on Sept 12th and Oct 11th that year would have been a couple of degrees colder at the present monitoring site.
In 1994 a minor frost on Oct 4th was the only blemish til Oct 24th, In my memory, the leaves on the much smaller trees in Linden Ws Lakes walkway remained on the trees and did not change color until the week before the Thanksgiving weekend.
ReplyDeleteFrost in Wasagaming this morning, along with several cities in SK.
ReplyDeleteGot down to 6C at the airport.. the first single digit low of the month. Amazing considering average lows are now 4C..
ReplyDeleteWhat was the earliest spring frost and latest fall frost at the Forks? Anyone know? I'm guessing April 15 and Nov 2.
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