Super-Warm Sunday

     Another crazy day in Manitoba this winter with temperatures 15 to 20 C above normal today. Abundant sunshine and westerly downlope winds allowed for temperatures to rise well above zero. Most notable was in the western RRV. A few records were broken, although not many. Some areas were very close to breaking their records though. Winnipeg Airport's high of 6.8 C was just shy of the previous record of 7.2 C in 1963.

Records broken in Manitoba today:

Location . . . . . . . . . . Today's High . . . . . . . . . . Old record . . . . . . . . . . Records began

Pilot Mound                      8.8 C                            8.3 (1963)                            1939
Melita                                6.3 C                            1.7 (2002)                            1993
Fisher Branch                  5.6 C                            4.5 (1991)                            1978
Churchill                          -2.0 C                          -5.6 (1961)                            1932


Also some incredible highs which did not break records:

Location . . . . . . . . . . Today's High


McCreary                         9.9 C
Carman                           9.3 C
Portage                            7.9 C
Morden                             7.9 C
Gretna                              7.9 C
Winnipeg The Forks        7.6 C
Winnipeg A                      6.8 C
Brandon                           5.7 C
Pinawa                             5.0 C
Steinbach Ag                    4.9 C
Gimli                                 3.7 C

     Hopefully you got the chance to enjoy this spectacular day, because tomorrow is the beginning of a change. A cold front will swing through tonight ushering in drastically cooler temperatures behind it. Temperatures will likely steady or even continue to fall tomorrow afternoon into the minus teens by evening. Although of course, this is just closer to normal :P It will feel much colder with the wind, with blustery north winds of 40 gusting to 50 or 60 km/h expected. Tuesday will be closer to normal as well with morning lows approaching -20 C, and daytime highs struggling to reach -10 C.

Overnight tonight

     After a brief warm-up Wednesday with highs in the mid minus single digits, things will only get colder thereafter. Thursday through Sunday look downright frigid with lows well into the minus twenties and highs between -15 and -20 C.

     Next week looks like the return of above-normal temperatures, although as usual, stay tuned for the latest updates...

P.S. Very little in the way of snow expected in the next week.