Sunday, February 05, 2012

Super Sunday sets new record highs over southern Manitoba

It's Super Sunday today as the Giants take on the Patriots in the 46th Super Bowl in Indianapolis.. but the phrase could just as easily have described the weather in southern Manitoba today as sunny springlike conditions prevailed across the southern Prairies. In Winnipeg, temperatures soared to a daytime high of +6.8C, 17C above normal and just 0.4C off the day's record high of +7.2C set in 1963. Temperatures of +7 to +10C were recorded over the snowfree western RRV including Carman and Morden. At least 3 record highs were set in southern MB today including Melita (6.3C), Pilot Mound (+8.8C) and Fisher Branch (+5.6C) The mild weather will be short lived however as a cold front crosses southern MB overnight, ushering in more seasonable temperatures for Monday and Tuesday.
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8 comments:

  1. daniel P9:02 PM, February 06, 2012

    Rob!
    Have you noticed that the snowpack around the city has really diminished. If this keeps up, we might be snow free by the end of Feburary :-D

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  2. Mike9:35 PM, February 06, 2012

    I agree, It's time we have a real melt and get on with spring.

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  3. rob11:15 AM, February 07, 2012

    daniel.. Yes, that sunny 7C on Sunday really made a dent in Winnipeg's snowpack. Visible satellite imagery shows little or no snow on the ground southwest of Winnipeg throughout the western RRV.

    If we can stay snowfree through much of the month, then our chances of an early spring are increased as we wittle away the remaining snowpack, and the sun is allowed to warm up the snow free ground. This is what happened in 2000.. we basically lost our snowpack by the end of February, and Winnipeg was hitting 16C by March 6th, the earliest we've ever hit 15C or more.

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  4. Anonymous2:02 PM, February 07, 2012

    Not thinking we want another Y2K

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  5. Anonymous6:07 PM, February 07, 2012

    I suspect this comes as no surprise ...at this date we have Record Low Arctic Sea Ice

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  6. Mike10:37 PM, February 07, 2012

    Quick note for the weather enthusiasts, I have moved my blog page to
    http://mikesobs.blogspot.com/
    If you couldn't access my previous page. Oh by the way keep warm!

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  7. daniel P10:13 AM, February 08, 2012

    That is gonna be one heck of a cold front coming through tomorrow!!!

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  8. rob10:23 AM, February 08, 2012

    Yeah, big change.. but like most cold outbreaks this winter.. brief.

    Current temperature guidance for Winnipeg for Thursday has our temperature falling from -10C around 8 am to -15C by noon and -22C by 6 pm. Windchills of -20 at 8 am, -26 by noon, and -35 by 6 pm. Click on the 48 hr forecast graph (on my main webpage) to get a good idea of the temperature trends for tomorrow.

    Daughter has a school ski trip Friday.. figures it falls on one of the few cold days of the winter.

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