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The Gooder. Nobody told this Monday what a "case of the Mondays" is supposed to look like! We're into the entry region of a high pressure ridge, which means it's a sunny, windy-out-of-the-west sort of day. This will generate potentially record-breaking highs across southern Alberta today. Brooks and Medicine Hat should come within two degrees of their high records, and conditions will persist in this fashion well beyond our boundary, with Winnipeg, Brandon, and areas of Saskatchewan seeing highs today hitting the 30s. Enjoy!
Forecast two: The Not-So-Gooder. It starts today, in fact; rainshowers and unstable pockets triggering thundershowers will roll out from Canmore and strike to the northeast, lining up with Edmonton. That's the thing about aligning with the entry-region of a ridge: wind is rising. Rising air cools, and creates unstable conditions. Tomorrow, that trough arrives in earnest and sticks it out for a few days, plummeting us well below seasonal, and dropping our low temperatures to just above the freezing mark! If you haven't got some already, a nice little layer of burlap and some twine may be necessities for your garden beds. We'll look for scattered showers as well, and, if those continue overnight, temperatures will support flurry activity.