The Buffalo Seven

A second shot of the #Winnipeg Human Rights Museum contrasted against a beautiful sunrise.

3 November

iPhone Camera+Winnipeg Buildings Human Rights Museum Snapseed

#Winnipeg Human Rights #Museum (Taken with instagram)

100km/h gust front moving across Winnipeg. Full-size over at DA.

7 September

Winnipeg Thunderstorm Gust Front Wind

Large panorama of a rapidly approaching gust front over downtown Winnipeg. Full size over at DA.

7 September

Winnipeg Thunderstorm Gust Front Wind

A nice Panorama of a downtown Winnipeg sunset. Colors have been enhanced (obviously).

1 September

Winnipeg Sunset City iPhone Snapseed Camera+

Beautiful #Winnipeg sunset (Taken with Instagram at Union Station)

Inspired by the outrageously quick-moving low-level scud generated by moist outflow from thunderstorms to the north of the city, I decided to do a time-lapse video of the afternoon. What I got was an amazing example of shear through an inversion, direction-dependent low-level moisture transport, and a 100km/h + gust front that ripped through the city. Not bad :)

30 May

Weather Time-Lapse Winnipeg Storm

June 2009 Weather Stats for Winnipeg ⇢

Rob has put up the stats for June 2009. Guess what! Below normal … again!

After an unseasonably cool first half of the month, temperatures finally warmed to above normal values for the latter half of June as summerlike weather finally made an appearance over southern Manitoba. The warm weather however was not enough to offset the cool start, and as a result, June finished almost 1.5C below normal, with a monthly mean temperature of 15.6C at Winnipeg airport. This made June the 7th consecutive month with mean temperatures below normal (December 2008 to June 2009). Although significant this is not record breaking. Since 1971, there have been four other periods with 7 consecutive months of below normal monthly mean temperatures in Winnipeg, namely…

November 1973 to May 1974

June 1985 to December 1985

May 1993 to November 1993

November 1996 to May 1997

There were also two periods with 8 consecutive months below normal

November 1978 to June 1979

October 1995 to May 1996

The month was marked by an exceptionally late freeze on June 6th.. with a record low of -4.6C at Winnipeg airport.. the coldest June temperature ever at the airport since 1938, and the second coldest June temperature in Winnipeg since June 1 1888 (-6.1C) Downtown Winnipeg escaped the freeze with no frost reported at the Forks weather station.

PRECIPITATION

A strong storm system on June 26-27th brought heavy rainfall and strong winds to southeast Manitoba with over 100 mm of rain in areas east and southeast of Lake Winnipeg. This system brought heavy rainfall to eastern sections of Winnipeg with 75 mm reported while western areas, including the airport, had 35 mm. Other than this system precipitation was generally light in June with a lack of showers and thunderstorms. As a result, precipitation varied greatly across the city in June. Whereas the Airport only had 61.5 mm, the downtown station at The Forks had 82.8 mm and according to the rain gauge network operated by the City of Winnipeg, there was over 90 mm in the many areas of Winnipeg east of the Red River. Normal June rainfall in Winnipeg is 90 mm.

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Fireworks from the Forks! Check out the photostreams at Part 1 and Part 2.

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Canada Day Fireworks (Part 2); photos from the fireworks display at The Forks.

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Canada Day Fireworks (Part 1); photos from the fireworks display at The Forks.

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Church

I went to St. Aiden’s Anglican Church today for both spiritual nourishment and with hopes of networking and meeting some people. It turned out fairly well. I found the service different from my old church, but with enough similarities to feel somewhat familiar and comforting. At the end of the service, I asked the elderly couple next to me if they had been attending St. Aiden’s for very long, which of course led one thing to another and I told them I just moved here. Well, they introduced me to another lady, who then introduced me to the guy in charge of the youth events. I gave him my e-mail so I could hopefully hit some of those up. Anyways, he introduced me to a few younger “young adults,” three people in their 1st-3rd year of university. Then I was introduced to the priest, who upon hearing I’ve just moved here, got some people together and took us all out for lunch.

So a morning at a new church led to a free lunch and meeting all sorts of people! I’m really happy with how today went!

11 May