{"id":694887,"date":"2026-05-26T13:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694887\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T13:09:17","slug":"ring-of-fire-storm-potential-covers-the-prairies-amid-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694887\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ring of fire&#8217; storm potential covers the Prairies amid heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/4tsMDD6hAcUxYq46jimzs5\/d4e3e23d276a5bdf063362284902c5a0\/image2.png\" alt=\"Blocking pattern mid- to late week Prairies\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image2.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The ring of fire storms refer to a storm track that brings thunderstorms along the outer periphery of the ridge of high pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Under the ridge, it is so warm and dry that clouds can not form as air under high pressure sinks, rather than rises.<\/p>\n<p>However, on the western edge of the heat, cooler air, vertically, allows clouds to form. When the air masses merge, the instability increases due to the gradient.<\/p>\n<p><img url=\"\/\/images.twnmm.com\/c55i45ef3o2a\/4jJ9zfRLrxkOnHynzPmyvE\/17c1d5e7bbf8ee565e57a9c94d0ac3a2\/image9.png\" alt=\"Rainfall timing this week on the Prairies\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;object-fit:contain;object-position:center center;color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/image9.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>That can also bring the risk of repeated storm threats and rain over the same area, with parts of Alberta at risk of seeing flooding.<\/p>\n<p>That will keep most of Saskatchewan and Manitoba dry throughout this week, underneath the ridge.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, those on either side of the ridge will see volatile storm forecasts on many occasions this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ring of fire storms refer to a storm track that brings thunderstorms along the outer periphery of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,3609,16581,56323,44,11423],"class_list":["post-694887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-heat","tag-heat-wave","tag-jet-stream","tag-news","tag-prairies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}