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Chris Lindquist makes the most of an unusually mild November Monday afternoon, jogging across the Assiniboine Foot Bridge and through the park Monday despite a light rain.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
And unusual; the forecast suggests their customers might be able to enjoy a drink or a bite outside just a little longer this year. The mean daily temperature for October in Winnipeg was 8 C, just under three degrees above what\u2019s normal, and the trend is expected to continue into the end of the year, Environment and Climate Change Canada said.<\/p>\n
Forecast temperatures this week range from 6 C to 14 C, above-normal for November.<\/p>\n
Should the weather stay relatively civilized, Wreford said this might be the year Langside Grocery tries out a winter patio \u2014 complete with blankets and heaters, if they\u2019re needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were already thinking about keeping it open on really nice days in the winter this year,\u201d Wreford said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it would be great for people to go out there this week. It\u2019s like a gift, this extra-nice weather.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Dressed for the weather, Bekah Roe strolls along Wellington Crescent Monday afternoon as temperatures hover around 14C.<\/p>\n Warmer temperatures across Canada are being driven in part by El Ni\u00f1o, a strong climate phenomenon when the Pacific Ocean warms, and then the heat is shed into the atmosphere, impacting the weather.<\/p>\n Matt Albers, a senior meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada, said while El Ni\u00f1o is a contributing factor, the current forecast could also be a \u201cnormal aberration\u201d in Manitoba\u2019s weather patterns.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce the impacts of El Ni\u00f1o are fully felt, we may even continue to have some warmer temperatures continue into December,\u201d he said. \u201cGenerally speaking, for Manitoba and southern Manitoba, what that ends up doing is it just shifts our weather patterns a little bit further north.\u201d<\/p>\n Albers warned that the forecast doesn\u2019t mean Manitobans should rush to donate their winter boots or forgo winter tires \u2014 even if the weather is warmer, that doesn\u2019t mean it can\u2019t still be unpredictable.<\/p>\n \u201cThe pattern can still shift drastically enough where one day we can be back to -5 C with snowy conditions and bad roads, and then a few days later the pattern will rebound and all that snow will melt,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThat might just make it maybe a little bit more uncertain, and maybe there\u2019s a better chance of freezing rain and other types of precipitation, because we\u2019re going to be near that zero-degree mark still.\u201d<\/p>\n malak.abas@winnipegfreepress.com<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t Malak Abas Malak Abas is a city reporter at the Free Press. Born and raised in Winnipeg\u2019s North End, she led the campus paper at the University of Manitoba before joining the Free Press in 2020. Read more about Malak<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Malak produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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