Pleasant End to the Week

A pleasant second half to the week is on the way with near-normal temperatures and lots of sunshine. Daytime highs will sit near 22°C through the rest of the week with overnight lows around 10 or 11°C. Winds will remain light through today and tomorrow then start to pick up to 20–30km/h out of the south by Friday afternoon. Not a whole lot to say other than it will be quite pleasant!

Wednesday

21°C / 10°C
Mainly sunny.
Thursday

22°C / 11°C
Sunny
Friday

22°C / 11°C
Mainly sunny.

The Weekend

Looking ahead to the weekend, it’s looking more and more likely it will be showery with with a risk of thunderstorms. An upper low is forecast to track across Southern Manitoba on Saturday supporting two lows: one that will track through the Interlake region tied closely to the upper low and a second low pressure system that will track through North Dakota tied to the associated frontal wave[1].

Lifted Index for Saturday Afternoon from the GFS

Lifted Index for Saturday Afternoon from the GFS.

At this point, strong instability is forecast through the Northern Plains of the United States with LI values (shown above) near –10°C showing some fairly significant instability. CAPE values south of the border are also forecast to climb into the 2500–3000J/kg range.

Further north, instability is forecast to be sitting over Southern Manitoba, although the weaker LIs of only of only around –2°C mean that we’ll need stronger forcing to get any significant storms going; with the frontal wave in the US I’m inclined to say that we’ll see more cloudy/showery weather than the potential for any significant storms. Rainfall amounts shouldn’t really come close to the last two systems, although convection in the United States is expected to feed moisture northwards into the upper low and it will spread it out into a band of showery rain again. As the system passes through, more showers are expected on the back side on Sunday.

That’s all still a long ways out, though. We’ll keep an eye out and be sure to give more details by week’s end.


  1. The frontal wave of a system is it’s associated warm & cold fronts.  ↩

Brad

Brad lives in Winnipeg with his wife and two children and is the founder of A Weather Moment. He has loved weather from a very young age and has followed that passion through his life so far. He received a B.Sc. in Earth Sciences with Specialization in Atmospheric Sciences and is currently employed in the field of meteorology. You can find the author as WeatherInThePeg on Mastodon.

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