A Chance to Dry Out

A ridge of high pressure building into the province will offer several days of dry weather.

A break from the wet weather is finally here thanks to a ridge of high pressure that is building into the province. In a pleasant change of events, that will allow this forecast to be a whole bunch shorter than many of late.

Wednesday
22°C / 10°C
A few clouds

Thursday
25°C / 12°C
Mainly sunny

Friday
26°C / 18°C
Cloudy periods

The dry weather can’t come soon enough as the flooding situation continues to worsen over the southwestern corner of the province. Fortunately, conditions will be near-perfect over the next several days.

Today will bring a few clouds and a high in the low 20’s as the ridge begins pushing into Manitoba. Winds will be quite light today out of the northwest at around 15km/h. The temperature will drop to around 10°C under clear skies tonight.

Thursday will be a much more summer-like day with sunny skies and a high near 25°C. Winds will be light out of the southwest at only around 15km/h. Clear skies again tomorrow night as we head towards a low of 12°C.

Summer continues its return on Friday as temperatures climb a degree or two higher than Thursday. We’ll see a few cloudy periods as a warm front pushes towards the province. The temperature will fall to around 17 or 18°C on Friday night with a few clouds.

Blistering Weekend Ahead

Looking ahead to the weekend, there is only one word to describe it: hot. A very hot and humid air mass will build into southeastern Saskatchewan on Friday and then spread eastwards into Manitoba on Saturday. High temperatures will be in the lower 30’s on Saturday while dew point values climb into the 21-24°C range. The heat and humidity will combine to likely produce humidex values over 40 on Saturday. Needless to say, that is swelteringly hot and will firmly remind people that we are, in fact, in the middle of summer.

Sunday will continue to be hot until a cold front sweeps through in the afternoon. Temperatures will climb into the upper 20’s or just break 30°C which will feel more like the upper 30’s thanks to the humid air still present in the region. Slightly cooler and drier air will move in for Sunday night and next week as the winds shift westerly behind the cold front.

Any storm potential for the weekend is still unclear. To some degree severe storms are always possible when such hot and humid air pushes into our region, but at this point there simply isn’t a clear indicator as to whether anything will develop. We’ll have more on it later in the week.

Enjoy some dry weather and, finally, a real taste of summer!

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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