Unsettled Conditions to End The Week

A disturbance crossing the Prairies will bring generally unsettled conditions with scattered showers and thunderstorms to southern Manitoba to round out the week.

Mixed to mostly cloudy skies will move into Winnipeg and the Red River Valley today ahead of an upper-level disturbance slowly moving eastwards through Saskatchewan. Over the next two days, unsettled conditions will produce scattered showers and thundershowers across the region. Slack winds over the region mean that the [thunder]showers will be fairly slow-moving, with local rainfall amounts of 5 to 15 mm possible. Conditions will settle for Sunday, with more sunshine building into the region under partly cloudy skies.

RDPS 24hr. Accumulated Precipitation valid 06Z Saturday June 23, 2018
Forecast 24 hour accumulated precipitation shows shows the widespread likelihood for showers across much of southern Manitoba today.

Temperatures will continue to be warm with highs in the upper twenties or low thirties. Lows in the 16 to 18°C range are forecast for the next few days.

Long Range Outlook

Next week will kick off with unsettled conditions as a southerly flow redevelops and taps into warmer, more humid air. Highs will climb back towards 30°C with muggier conditions moving into the region.

Winnipeg’s seasonal daytime high is currently 24°C while the seasonal overnight low is 12°C.

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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