Southern Alberta could receive some rainfall toward the end of this week, and by early next week rain could again fall on southern Saskatchewan.
This map for 6 p.m. Thursday to 6 p.m. Friday, by the U.S. National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center, was issued just before noon on Monday and it shows precipitation coming off the mountains and moving across southern Alberta.
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The following five-day accumulation map is for 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Saturday, and it show the precipitation will begin to move east into southwestern Saskatchewan.
The following seven-day precipitation accumulation map is for 6 a.m. today to 6 a.m. on Monday May 23. It suggests rain could continue to move east across southeastern Saskatchewan, likely beginning Saturday morning.
The following maps from the U.S. Environmental Modeling Center at NCEP show the precipitation forecast for May 23 to May 29. It suggests an above average chance the southern Prairies could continue to receive precipitation.
The long range forecast, May 30 to June 12 shows a less than average chance of precipitation across most of the Prairie growing areas.
Central Alberta and northwestern Saskatchewan have received little precipitation since the middle of March, as the following map from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada shows.
The following maps from the U.S. Environmental Modeling Center at NCEP show their temperature forecast.
The first map, for May 15 to May 22 shows the cooler temperatures that causes crop damage in south and central Saskatchewan being pushed south, and then replaced with high pressure system that will bring higher than average temperatures.
However, the system with cooler than average temperatures could potentially linger across the prairie growing region in Canada and again move north, as the second map for May 23 to May 29 shows.
The longer range temperature forecast continues to show above average temperatures for May 30 to June 12 for most of the Prairie provinces.
