Cool August ends 7th coolest summer on record

August was another cooler than normal month in Winnipeg.. the 9th consecutive month below normal. The average temperature for the month at YWG airport was 17.3C, or 1.2C below the normal August average of 18.5C. This comes on top of a very cool July (16.5C) and cool June (15.6C), with a 3 month summer average of only 16.5C, or nearly 2C below the normal summer average of 18.3C. This puts it just behind the summers of 1985 and 1883 as the 7th coolest summer in Winnipeg since records began in 1873.

Looking at the 3 month temperature graph for the "summer" of 2009, one can see the only warmth was a 2 week stretch in June and a 4 day hot spell in mid August (the 33C reading on Aug 27th is erroneous) Cool weather dominated most of the summer, especially July which did not break the 30C mark.

August now marks the 9th consecutive month below normal in Winnipeg.. the longest such streak since another 9 month stretch between Dec 1949 and August 1950.

Top 10 Coolest summers in Winnipeg (records began 1873)

YEAR	Jun		Jul	Aug	AVG (C)
2004	14.1		18.2	14.3	15.5
1992	14.9		15.9	16.4	15.7
1885	15.0		18.0	15.2	16.1
1891	15.9		16.2	16.4	16.2
1968	15.4		17.6	15.5	16.2
1895	14.8		17.7	16.4	16.3
1985	14.0		18.8	16.3	16.4
1883	16.2		16.8	16.3	16.4
2009	15.6		16.5	17.3	16.5
1950	15.1		18.2	16.5	16.6
1884	18.3		15.4	16.1	16.6

NORMALS 17.0C 19.5C 18.5C summer: 18.3C

Nice week ahead!

Looks like we could be seeing the nicest stretch of weather of the summer this upcoming week! Models are indicating an upper ridge building over the Prairies which will block any weather systems from moving into southern MB over the next few days. This will bring plenty of sunshine with high temperatures in the mid 20s through mid week.. which is actually a little ABOVE normal for a change(now 22c) The upper ridge will flatten a bit by mid week then rebound again for the end of the week into next weekend.. bringing more dry weather and warm temperatures. At this point, models are indicating the next significant threat of rain won't be until Labour Day.. so it will be a good stretch of dry weather to finally start drying up some of those water logged fields over southern MB. We need it.

Rob's Obs updating again

Greetings all! I'm back from holidays after 4 glorious weeks in sunny Italy. I've been blissfully unaware about the weather in southern MB over the past month, but I'm sure I experienced more summer weather in the past 4 weeks than the past 2 years in Winnipeg!

My website has been updated with weather data from my weather station in Charleswood, and I'll try to get the blog going again in the next few days.

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