Unsettled week ahead..

The weather pattern will be getting more unsettled over southern MB this week as an upper ridge of high pressure starts building over eastern North America, while a long wave upper trof sets up over the west. This will set up a storm track across the northern Plains and southern Prairies this week, with periodic weather systems bringing occasional rounds of showers and possible thunderstorms.  The first wave of precipitation is expected this afternoon into tonight over southern MB as a band of showers over North Dakota spreads northeast. Another impulse over the Dakotas will threaten more showers and possibly thunderstorms over southern MB later Monday through Monday night into early Tuesday with locally heavy rain possible. Drier weather is expected midweek before a more potent system developing over the Dakotas brings more showers and thunderstorms later in the week. Overall, not the greatest week if you're looking for a prolonged stretch of sunny warm weather!  But then, this is not unusual for this time of year. On average, June is the wettest month of the year over southern MB, as increasingly warmer and more humid air to our south tries to spread north, and interacts with weather system crossing the Prairies.