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Prairie forecast: Mild start replaced by Arctic high pressure

Forecast issued January 15, covering Jan. 15 to 22, 2025

Reading Time: 3 minutes We start this forecast period with an area of low-pressure sliding southeastwards through the southern Northwest Territories and into northern Manitoba. This low is pulling mild air northwards, which means a continuation of mild temperatures in Alberta, while Saskatchewan and Manitoba are seeing a rapid rebound from the cold start to the week.



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Prairie forecast: Battle between warm and cold

Forecast issued January 8, covering January 8 to 15, 2025

Reading Time: 3 minutes For this forecast period, the weather models have been bouncing back and forth between a return to cold weather after a brief mid-week warmup or a return to the mild weather pattern we saw during much of December. The models have been slowly converging towards the milder solutions, but at this point confidence in the second half of this forecast period is low.



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Prairie forecast: Colder weather moving in with the New Year

Forecast issued Dec. 31, covering Dec. 31 to January 8, 2025

Reading Time: 3 minutes For this forecast period, it looks like the quiet weather pattern will continue as the weather models are not showing any big storm systems impacting the Prairies. We should continue our slow cooldown with temperatures during most of this forecast period looking to be near to below average.

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Klassen: Feeder market has many factors to digest in 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the week ending December 28, there were no feeder cattle sales in Western Canada; however, that didn’t stop cattle producers from emailing or calling me over the holidays inquiring about market direction. I thought it would be an opportune time to discuss a couple factors that will influence the market direction over the next couple of months.


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Prairie forecast: Mild, quiet holidays expected

Forecast issued Dec. 24, covering Dec. 24 to Dec. 31, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes The weather for this forecast period will be largely controlled by a large, stationary area of low pressure in the Gulf of Alaska. This has been sending wave after wave over energy into coastal B.C. This will result in a predominately west to southwesterly flow across the Prairies—meaning a continuation of mild temperatures as Pacific air dominates.



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Bovine tuberculosis case highlights need for traceability 

Producers want compensation for disinfection costs after bovine tuberculosis found in Saskatchewan

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Saskatchewan Cattlemen’s Association is emphasizing the importance of biosecurity and record keeping after a positive case of bovine tuberculosis was traced to a cattle herd in that province.

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Prairie forecast: Cold start, but then turning mild

Forecast issued Dec. 18, covering Dec. 18 to 25, 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutes To start this forecast period, we have a strong area of Arctic high pressure dropping southeastwards behind the area of low pressure that hit the eastern Prairies earlier in the week. This high will bring a quick shot of cold weather to Saskatchewan and Manitoba from Wednesday to Friday.