David Spence

Prairie Weather This Week – March 9 | Farmers and ranchers in the southern prairies have been waiting all season for a week like this. Plenty of snow - just ahead of planting season.

Snow! 20, 30, 40, …. 50cm! This could be the snowiest week of the season in the southern prairies, especially Alberta. It is March, after all. Here’s the outlook at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Midweek Update Mar 5 | While southern Alberta continues with spring-like weather, clipper systems bring rain and snow to much of the prairies through the weekend.

Thundersnow! It might happen again in southwestern Alberta, as spring weather tries to take over across the prairies. Winter's not ready to leave for good, though. Plan your weekend...the prairie weather outlook is here: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather this Week – March 2 | It'll be a week of warm and dry weather in southern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan, Elsewhere, it's colder and snowier.

From +15 to -40…big temperature spread across the prairies this week. Where will it be warm? Where will it be cold? Where can we find out? Here, that’s where: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – midweek update Feb 26 | Wintry weather returns to the prairies Friday,, and settles down over the weekend. Snow, blowing snow, and cold weather return.

Friday! Brrr! Winter weather makes a comeback across the prairies, with arctic cold, snow, blowing snow, and weather warnings galore. Hang on....all should improve on the weekend. The midweek weather update at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Feb 23 | It's the last week of meteorological winter, and while some areas will get spring like weather, all of us will experience at least one blast of winter.

Snow falls. Snow melts. What will spring be like? What about this week? The weather outlook for the prairies for this week and this spring at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Midweek update Feb 19 | Sunshine returns, and snow exits the prairies,, leaving the region in a cold pool of Arctic air through the weekend. Highs are well below average.

Through the weekend:

As the snow fades from sight
Winter's grip holds its might.
Arctic air still has its reign,
And bitter cold will long remain.

Plan your weekend...the weather outlook for the prairies is at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Feb 16 | Harsh winter weather returns to the prairies this week, with snow, blowing snow, low temperatures, high wind chill, and travel hazards

Sure hope you remember your winter driving skills. Sure hope you still have your snow tires. Sure hope you know where you left your parka. Sure hope my temperature forecast is wrong. The prairie weather outlook for this week at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Funny…Fort Macleod is where we shop for groceries and supplies when camping in S. Alberta. Used to use the dump station before they moved it. Been there dozens of times in the past 10 years. Didn’t realize until now that there were no traffic lights…

Prairie Weather This Week – Midweek Update Feb 12 | It will be a warm Family Day weekend across the prairies, and moisture remains in short supply. Winter could return next week.

Family Day weekend's coming up....and while the weather pattern is changing....there may not be much change in the actual weather - in most areas - before next week. Province by province, day by day, the outlook is at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Feb 9 | One more week of dry, mild weather is ahead, before a long awaited pattern change which could bring much needed snow after Valentine's Day

We may not reach record highs this week, but the prairies will be warm. And, there are some signs that snowier weather may be on the way.

The day by day outlook for prairie weather this week is at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Midweek Update Feb 5 | Warm, dry weather continues through the weekend for prairie agricultural regions. There are signs of possible change next week.

At a time when it should be freezing cold, its thawing warm. And it will stay warm through the weekend. But...is it too much of a good thing? An updated prairie weather outlook is online now at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Feb 2 | For this week, and probably next week, expect little change in the overall weather pattern. Warm and dry in the west, cold in Manitoba

Alberta sizzles, Manitoba fizzles, and Saskatchewan's in the mizzle*. No one said life was fair.

What about snow? Or even rain? The outlook for this week's Canadian prairie weather is at Rural Roots Canada. www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

* made-up word

Calgary has just come through an extraordinarily warm and dry January.

The average temperature (-2.8) was 4.8 degrees above the long term mean. Precipitation (6.5 mm) was only 65 percent of the long term average. Temperature graph courtesy NOAA Climate Prediction Center.

Prairie Weather This Week – Midweek Update Jan 29 | There is little change in this week's weather. Alberta stays warm, but misses out on beneficial snowfall that reaches Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Want a warm weekend? Then, you want to be in southern Alberta with double digit highs. Beneficial snow is expected for the eastern prairies. The midweek weather update for the prairies is at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Jan 26 | Rural Roots Canada While temperatures moderate, the weather pattern remains dry, with little snow for the prairies this week. Thawing temperatures return to Alberta.

Alberta thaws, Saskatchewan warms, Manitoba freezes, and no one’s getting much snow. The day-by-day, province by province outlook for the last week of January at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

David Spence: Weather Tech on the Farm | Rural Roots Canada Prairie farmers are blending AI, on-farm sensors, and dense weather networks for hyper-local forecasts, precision insights that still rely on human expertise.

Rapidly evolving on-field weather technology is transforming farms and ranches. Still, nothing replaces the human meteorologist. Here's a little thing I wrote for Rural Roots Canada on weather tech on the farm. www.ruralrootscanada.com/david-spence...

Prairie Weather This Week – Midweek Update Jan 22 | Arctic air continues, with dangerously cold weather on the eastern prairies. Signs of relief are showing up late in the weekend.

Temps near -40, wind chill near -50 - Dangerously cold weather continues into the weekend for the eastern prairies, while parts of Alberta may get a bit more snow. A province by province, day by day update can be found at Rural Roots Canada. www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Jan 19 | A bit of snow, and a lot of cold. Alberta's warmer and drier. Saskatchewan and Manitoba, snowier, and dangerously cold.

Southern Alberta stays dry as snow and dangerously cold weather hit the eastern prairies this week. The province by province day to day outlook is at Rural Roots Canada. Stay warm, stay safe, stay up to date. The cold, hard facts: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

December Snow Eases Prairie Drought | Significant snowfall in December has resulted in modest improvement to drought on the Canadian Prairies, and across the country.

Drought conditions have eased across the prairies, but the majority of agricultural lands remiain either abnormally dry or in drought.

An updated Canadian Drought Monitor was released this week, showing December rain was quite helpful in many areas:

www.ruralrootscanada.com/december-sno...

Prairie Weather This Week – Midweek Update Jan 15 | Colder and snowier weather returns to the Eastern prairies, while Alberta temperatures stay above average...until Sunday.

Double digit high temperatures for Alberta. Double digit snow accumulations for Manitoba. A weekend of weather extremes on the Canadian Prairies!
At least until the pattern changes on Sunday.

The updated midweek weather outlook at Rural Roots Canada:

www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Jan 12 | Agricultural regions on the Canadian prairies will continue to be starved for moisture this week, with more sunny, warm weather on the way.

January thaw! Very warm (good thing?). Very dry (not so good). This week's prairie weather outlook....province by province, day by day, at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Midweek Update Jan 8 | The January thaw arrives early this year, and temperatures across the prairies will climb above average this weekend. Unfortunately, no beneficial snow.

The January Thaw arrives early this year, and the weekend will be warm. No snow on the way for areas with no snow on the ground. Warm and dry for the rest of us, too. The weekend' weather outlook for the Canadian Prairies is at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Jan 5 | This week, dry areas stay dry, and wet areas get more snow. It's not promising for the agricultural south, where badly need snow is not forecast this week.

A parade of systems continues to bring light snow to the central and northern prairies.. There's no snow on the ground in much of the southern prairies, and this week, that won't change. The day by day outlook for the prairies is at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

#Manitoba...AMAZING! Sunlight refracting against the ice particles #Canada #cold #winter #skyporn YouTube video by Shannon Bileski

What happens when sunlight refracts against ice particles? Sun dogs, 22⁰ Halo and Circumzenithal arc and more!! Incredible 360 view of the ice particles! Please share and follow! 😊🎉 #Manitoba #Canada #winter #amazing #skyporn #sky #sundogs #HappyNewYear
#rainbow #weather
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2025 was warmer and slightly wetter than average in #Calgary. The avg temp in 2025 was 5.6, compared to the long term average of 4.5. #yyc had 471.5 mm of precipitation. The long term average is 445.4. (Preliminary numbers) The chart from NOAA shows warmer vs. colder than avg days in 2025.

Prairie Weather This Week – December 29 | 2026 will begin as 2025 ended, with cold air across most of the prairies, except for southern Alberta. Also, a look ahead to the rest of the winter.

A forecast for New Year's eve, an outlook for the REST OF THE WINTER, and the usual weekly weather outlook for the Canadian Prairies is at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat... #abstorm #mbstorm #skstorm #happynewyear #2026

Prairie Weather This Week – Dec 21 | It's Christmas week, and in this update, the focus is on travel conditions, and who gets a White Christmas. Cold weather stress on humans and livestock.

CHRISTMAS WEEK WEATHER ON THE PRAIRIES. Travel plans? There may be weather related disruptions. Cold? For most of us, yes. And, not everyone on the prairies will have a white Christmas. The update's at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Midweek Update Dec 18 | Another clipper will bring snow and cold weather to most of the prairies. Relatively warm, though, in SW Alberta, Cold weekend ahead!

A cold, snowy, and sometimes stormy weekend ahead for the prairies. Except for one part of Alberta. Province by province, day by day details in today's Prairie Weather midweek update at Rural Roots Canada. www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – December 14 Snow, cold weather continue for most of the prairies, while chinooks return to southern Alberta. La Nina update, drought monitor update

More cold, snowy, disruptive weather for the prairies. Chinooks in southern Alberta. Update on prairie drought, and latest La Nina projection. Prairie weather outlook for this week at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...

Prairie Weather This Week – Midweek Update Dec 11 | Bitterly cold weather continues across most of the prairies Saturday. Warmer weather returns Sunday, especially in southern Alberta, as a chinook arrives.

It's cold across the prairies. Not for long! Arctic air dominates now (Thursday), and overnight wind chills could push -40. But the weekend will be warmer, and by Sunday, much warmer. The updated outlook at Rural Roots Canada: www.ruralrootscanada.com/prairie-weat...