It will be a quiet week here in southern Manitoba with mainly sunny skies for this week after a warm front passed this morning bringing gloomy/showery skies. After today (high of 14C!), highs will still be above normal but only ranging from mid to high single digits.
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Hurricane Tomas has done some major damage to the isalands of St Vincent (around 60million worth) and Barbados (around 55 million worth). It is predicted that what is now left of the hurricane will start to strengthen again and move, slowly, closer to Haiti.
Cool Canadian Weather Facts for the Week of November 1-7
- In 1999 Winnipeg recieved it's highest sustained November windspeeds of 87k/h (gusting to 113k/h). (Nov. 1st)
- In 1869, a very powerful storm crossed the Great Lakes producing high winds, sinking more then 75 ships. (Nov. 7)
- Winnipeg 1986, winnipeggers see 30cm of snowfall combined with high winds, gusting to 90k/h and producing blizzard conditions, making it the worst blizzard in many years.
Source: Canadian Weather Calender
This Link or see below Nov 10-11 Incredible Extreme Weather Day
ReplyDeleteis to a commerative weather underground post written about the most severe upper midwest storms (Nov 10 -11) to affect the US.
Do we have the Manitoba equivalent info or perhaps our own. Mid Nov 1955 brought record snow and paralyzed car and truck movement in Winnipeg but I don't think there was much wind blown drifting.
http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/comment.html?entrynum=5
Don i'll check it out and have an awnser shortly when I make a new post tomorrow mostlikely (havn't had much time this week, sorry).
ReplyDeleteJust a quick forcast, snow/freezing rain tomorrow with highs of around 2C with this system moving in.
As mentioned, i'll have a new post SOON.