While we had a glimpse of how absolutely wonderful it will be for summer to be here over the past few days as temperatures shot up into the mid-20’s, the spring-that-never-ends is making an ugly return as multiple shots of Arctic air invade the Southern Prairies.
Temperatures through the remainder of the week are going to go from below-normal to more-below-normal as the above pictured cold front continues to slump southwards. The cooler weather was ushered in overnight as the cold front passed through Winnipeg bringing strong, gusty northerly winds. Temperatures today will only climb to around 13°C with strong northerly winds gusting as high as 60km/h. Temperatures will dip down close to the freezing mark under clear skies tonight with widespread low temperatures of around 2°C.
13°C / 2°C
Clearing & windy from the north.
15°C / 5°C
Mainly sunny.
12°C / 0°C
Cloudy with chance of late-morning showers. Clearing in the afternoon.
The rest of the week won’t fare much better. Temperatures will try to climb a little closer to normal tomorrow with highs reaching around 15°C. The low tomorrow night will be a little milder at around 5°C as some warmer air is pushed over the province ahead of an intense low pressure system working it’s way out of Alberta through Saskatchewan.
Friday will be fairly cloudy as yet another cold front sweeps through the Red River Valley. There may be a few showers along the cold front as it pushes through in the late morning and early afternoon, but only a couple mm of rain would be likely to fall, if any. Northerly winds in behind the cold front will clear the skies but limit our high as colder air is ushered in yet again. Overnight lows will drop close to 0°C on Friday night under clear skies.
Long-Term
A cold weekend is ahead of us as we move even deeper into the Arctic air mass. Saturday will be the coldest day with daytime highs only in the mid-to-high single digits with another night with temperatures at or just below 0°C. Conditions will improve on Sunday as the coldest air moves off to our east and the daytime high rebounds into the mid-teens.
At this point, it’s looking like we’ll be in for a huge turnaround early next week. Very warm air is expected to flood across the Prairies as an upper ridge begins building in. At this point it looks like we will start off next week with daytime highs rocketing back up into the mid-20’s. At this point it looks like 24 or 25°C is entirely possible with a slight chance we’ll see temperatures climb into the upper 20’s. The large-scale pattern shift looks like we’ll be moving into a more stable warm pattern, so just make it through the next 5 days and we’ll be enjoying summer!
