Our warm weather is expected to continue as a significant upper-level ridge continues to strengthen over Southern Manitoba. The weather will slowly grow slightly more unsettled into next week.
We’ll see sunny skies today with a daytime high of 28°C today and lighter winds only at about 20-30 km/h. Warming temperaures aloft will bring warmer nights back into the cards, with our overnight low tonight and through the weekend expected to sit only at about 17 or 18°C. Fortunately, our dewpoints should remian in the low teens, which will help make the warmth more comfortable.
A weak low sliding across Central Manitoba on Saturday will spread an area of rain and thundershowers through Parkland Manitoba across the Interlake and into NW Ontario. For those heading out to Dauphin for this weekend’s Country Fest, be sure to bring your tarps for your tents and your rain slickers; you’ll likely get a little wet on Saturday morning. Fortunately, conditions should be considerably better than, well, many of the recent years. Here in the Red River Valley, there’s only a slight chance of showers on Friday night/Saturday. For Winnipeg, Saturday will be a mix of sun and clouds with a high near 28°C.
Conditions improve again on Sunday, with more sunny skies across Southern Manitoba and highs near 30°C.
The upper ridge that has brought this beautiful weather to us will begin to break down early next week, bringing slightly more unsettled weather back to the Prairies. It currently looks like we’ll see some rain on Monday evening, and then building heat and humidity mid-week with the threat of thunderstorms. We’ll have more on that first thing next week!
