Saturday, September 29, 2012
Stellar weekend to wrap up September..
It will be a beautiful weekend to wrap up September with mainly sunny skies and warm temperatures. Today will be a spectacular fall day with a southerly breeze and clear blue skies allowing temperatures to soar into the upper 20s this afternoon across the Red River valley, with highs of 27C expected in Winnipeg. A great day to enjoy the fall colours. Sunday will see a continuation of the warm weather, although it will be a few degrees cooler as a frontal trough crosses the Red River valley by midday, with some patchy clouds and winds shifting into the northwest. Still, temperatures in the low 20s are expected to close out the month. Enjoy the warm weather while it lasts however because this may be the last mid 20 temperatures we see this season. Significantly colder weather is expected by mid week with high temperatures only in the single digits expected by Wednesday or Thursday.
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No more wind gust reports from the airport? Data for it been missing since the 21st.
ReplyDeleteA very smokey & hazy +27 out there today, but we'' take it. Hopefully October will be wet and mild. The city and surrounding areas need moisture.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous.. Yes, peak wind gust data is no longer available from YWG since they recently installed NavCanada wind sensors at the site. This is part of the eventual replacement of EC airport auto stations with NavCanada auto stations. Note however that peak wind data for Winnipeg airport will still be available from EC's colocated climate station site (Winnipeg CS site - identifier XWG)
ReplyDeleteUp to 28c at YWG airport as of 2 pm.. with a couple more hours of heating left. NAM going for a high of 29.5c which may work out. Record high for Winnipeg today is 30c set back in 1905. Also of note, we had 1.3 cm of snow on this date in 1974. Shows you how extreme the weather can be at this time of year.
ReplyDeleteSo much for the public I suppose when it comes to the data.. Most people would just use the airport data and not realise that some of the data is actually diverted to other stations.
ReplyDeleteCYWG wind gust "data" is avbl at the below web address although this is more an operational Air Traffic Control Tower tool than weather data collection.
ReplyDeletehttp://atm.navcanada.ca/atm/iwv/CYWG
Chris in Westwood.
Although this is practically fantasy land, TWN is showing the possibility of snow on the 9th. Guess we'll have to see how that idea plays out as we get closer to it. High temperature of 14, low of 4. I'd say at worst it'd be wet snow later that day, but other than that, I doubt that'll hold true.
ReplyDeleteAn amazing high of 29.6C at YWG airport today, just 0.4c off a record high for the day. Carman was the provincial and national hot spot at 30.4C.
ReplyDeleteRob...
ReplyDeletequestion regarding the replacement with NavCanada stations. Right the sites such as Emerson, Sprague, Melita are not sent out through the NWS Gateway system into our NWS system like obs at Pilot Mound, Carmen and Deerwood. Will this change allow sites such as Emerson CWEX send a MTR like the ones at say CWNK (Carmen).
WWGMTRWNK is how the Carmen site obs shows up in our NWS database. Sites such as Emerson, Melita and Sprague show up as AUTO8 sites and are SAO's still and not plotted.
Hope this makes some sense....hard to explain what we see.
Dan.. I wasn't aware that some of EC's auto8 stations were still reporting in SAO format. I don't think the switch to NavCanada sites ( which are AWOS stations at main airport sites) will change that format. I'll check with our monitoring division to see if that's the case.
ReplyDeleteSure wish we could have a few more weekends like this in October. Weather just doesn't get better than this.. especially when you add in those dazzling fall colours against that deep blue sky. Bike riding in Assiniboine Park today was spectacular..
ReplyDeleteAgreed, about as good as it gets this time of year.. heat, brilliant sunshine and the leaves seem quite vivid this Fall.
ReplyDeleteBut now that we made it into the record books for dryness this month, it's time for rain... Have to admit
Quite a large brush fire flared up south of me this afternoon in a stand of trees north of McGillvary, between Loudon and McCreary. Fire crews still on the scene this evening. Not surprising given how dry it is, and the gusty winds.
ReplyDeleteWow all the way down to 10°C at the airport...? Still 19.5°C at my place (south end). Something's coming!
ReplyDeleteIt's actually 17.7C as of 7 pm at the airport.. not sure where you got that 10C figure.
ReplyDeleteIt was between 6 and 7 PM. There was an addition observation, wonder if it was an error?
ReplyDeleteYeah I see it now.. 10C with a brief rainshower at 6:46 pm. Seems like an error.. maybe that was the dewpoint.
ReplyDeleteInteresting week coming up.. warm and windy Tuesday with strong southerly winds of 50G70 km/h pushing temperatures back into the mid 20s.. then cold front pushes through Wednesday with temperatures falling through the teens into single digits for Thursday. Still not a lot of rain being forecast with the colder air pushing in.. with only a couple of mm being shown by the models so far.
ReplyDeleteMax temperature of 24.2C at YWG airport today.. that gives a September average of 12.7C or 0.4C above normal (12.3C). 15 straight months above normal now. Methinks the streak will be tough to continue in October, but we'll see..
ReplyDeleteSlight correction on the September average.. finished at 12.6C for the month. Low yesterday fell to 8.4C by midnight which took monthly average down 0.1C.
ReplyDeleteGEM showing that cool bias in a southerly flow again for Tuesday.. with a high of only 21C forecast. Other guidance such as Euro at 24C and NAM at 27C look more reasonable given 850 temps in the mid teens. I would think 25C would be possible in that setup. Big story tomorrow will be the strong southerly winds, likely gusting to 70 km/h or higher with 50 knot low level jet progged over RRV in the morning. Given the dryness and low humidity, those winds will be a big concern if grass or bush fires flare up again. ND has a fire weather watch in effect for the RRV tomorrow (and a Red Flag warning for NW Minnesota today)