After enjoying a couple days of above-normal temperatures, a powerful low pressure system backing into Hudson Bay will drive a cold front southwards across Southern Manitoba today, bringing with it cooler weather.
The cold front will sweep through Southern Manitoba late this morning, with winds picking up from the north and increasing to 30-40km/h. Scattered showers will develop along the front as it pushes through the interlake, so most regions in the Red River Valley have a chance of seeing some rain later this morning. It won’t last long, though, and cooler air will stream in on the backside limiting our daytime high in Winnipeg to around 11°C. Skies will clear quickly tonight as an Arctic ridge builds in and helps our overnight low drop to -4°C.
The aforementioned low backing into Hudson Bay will become captured today and will block the eastwards advancement of the Arctic ridge which means, unfortunately, that we’ll be under the influence of the ridge and its outflow for the next few days. Thursday will see sunny skies with a daytime high of only around 9°C, and Friday will be much of the same with a high just a couple degrees warmer. By Saturday it looks like the ridge will start to move off and although the day will still be cool, a southerly flow will begin to bring warmer weather back to our region.
