Canadian Prairie Storms

16/01/2025

Tech Tip of the Day
Type in "Disk Cleanup" in Windows and you may find an enormous amount of space being taken up by temporary files!
This operation just saved us from buying new SSD and the computer is no longer lagging.

16/01/2025

Please follow The Weather Centre of Manitoba for Blizzard coverage. We are fighting viruses in more ways than one. Cleaning the main Windows SSD which has been filled by unknown files like the phone was. Replacing with a new one and re-installing Windows yet again is at the far end of the table of options. Also Neo Citron 1 of 3 is complete, doctor free antibiotics: blueberry yogurt 1 of 8 complete. Feeling queezy now, about to delete some massive files..🤢

**NEW**
**BLIZZARD WARNING**

A Blizzard Warning has been issued for the dark red area outlined in thick black. This warning includes Winnipeg, Portage La Prairie, Morden, Winkler, Steinbach, Selkirk, Morris, Gimli, Carman, Beausejour, Altona, and Emerson. Light snow combined with strong winds will reduce visibility to under 400m. Travel is not recommended. Winds will strengthen overnight and Friday morning, with gusts up to 90km/h.

-Andrew 🌪️

Here is the writeup from Environment Canada:
3:04 PM CST Thursday 16 January 2025

Travel is expected to be hazardous due to reduced visibility. Rapidly accumulating snow will make travel difficult. Visibility will be suddenly reduced to near zero at times in heavy snow and blowing snow.

Prepare for quickly changing and deteriorating travel conditions. If visibility is reduced while driving, turn on your lights and maintain a safe following distance. Protect yourself from wind, cold and disorientation by staying sheltered, indoors or with your vehicle. If you become stranded in a vehicle do not leave. The vehicle offers a form of protection from the cold. A single person walking through the snow is harder to find than a stranded car or truck. If you must travel, keep others informed of your schedule and destination and carry an emergency kit and mobile phone. Ensure that shelter is provided for pets and outdoor animals.

Blizzard warnings are issued when widespread reduced visibilities of 400 metres or less are expected for at least 4 hours.

Please continue to monitor alerts and forecasts issued by Environment Canada. To report severe weather, send an email to [email protected] or tweet reports using .

11/01/2025

Downtown Regina Saskatchewan
The bird feeder is active and the wind is making for some incredible views of these birds struggling to have lunch. We will fill up the feeder in a bit.

11/01/2025

The wind is just howling outside, the birds are toughing it out WOW!
Regina, Saskatchewan 3:40pm

11/01/2025

Regina's famous grasshopper

11/01/2025

Pense hardly ever gets credit so here is Pense getting all the snow. High resolution radar for Pense Saskatchewan. Any other towns need a high resolution radar update? It's 9:24pm

11/01/2025

8:37pm high resolution radar for Regina and Moose Jaw snow is still coming down!

11/01/2025

Current high resolution radar from RadarOmega 6:45pm

11/01/2025

First dual camera video from the new phone!
How's it look?

10/01/2025

High resolution models now giving us a better idea of where the snow will fall with this next system, Regina is now in the 10cm range however just to the southwest and west those numbers drop rapidly. Swift Current and Moose Jaw say 6cm, Brandon 15cm and Winnipeg 10cm. Saskatoon only shows 2cm on this map but the data gets cut off there so check other models (previous posts) for those number further north. Cypress Hills really bucking the trend with very high and consistent numbers near or above 20cm at the highest elevations.

10/01/2025

Prime Flying Time = 8pm to 11pm
Here is the wind gust map from the NAM Nest forecast model, this new 18z noon model has ramped up snowfall totals for the city of Regina, check next post for that... winds will die right down this evening, to 1 knot at 11pm, after that the wind will shift to strong and cold northwest 30 gusting to 50 overnight with snow.

10/01/2025

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10/01/2025

Juicy Radar 3:18pm

10/01/2025

New Song of the Day
Let Your Backbone Slide - Maestro

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group Let Your Backbone Slide · Maestro Urban Landmarks 1989-2005 ℗ 2005 The Orange Record Label Released on: 2005...

10/01/2025

Reminds me of the time we had our hood fly open in a snowstorm driving down the #1 highway to Winnipeg from Regina many years ago. That will scare and scar you for life, the sound of a breaking windshield is terrifying!

10/01/2025

Two Birds at the Feeder
Nice frosty scenes in Regina this morning. Wind is southeast at 26km/hr, we are listening to Huey Lewis and the News while watching the birds and installing apps on the new underwater night vision computer phone. We will be FULLY OPERATIONAL by 6pm snowstorm time.

10/01/2025

Bird Feeder Action and a Little Frost in Regina
11:38am January 10, 2025

10/01/2025

Edited: added Winnipeg due to popular demand plus "Snow Start Times"
Snowfall Totals w/ Town Maps (up to Monday morning)
January 10th to 12th Canadian Prairie Snowstorm
9am Update Friday, January 10th, 2025

This is the latest data from the GFS, NAM 6z, NAM 12z and HRDPS forecast models.
WINNIPEG 2 to 8cm start midnight
Regina 5 to 10cm start 6pm
Saskatoon 2 to 8cm start 3pm
Brandon 9 to 12cm start 9pm
Yorkton 2 to 12cm start 6pm
Edmonton 3 to 6cm start 9pm
Calgary 0 to 2cm chance of flurries starts at 4pm
Highly variable it is, best to be prepared for the weather!