Riley Laychuk's Manitoba forecast for Friday, Oct. 16, 2026

All right, let's have a look at your forecast heading into the weekend. A bit of a cooler afternoon ahead, a lot brighter for at least the southern half of the province than Thursday was. And then things really look up from there because of a ridge in the jet stream that's building that will push in some nice warm air as we get toward the weekend. So we'll have the numbers for you in your long range as we get through the afternoon hours. We'll get a bit more clearing, so parts of central and even into northern Manitoba getting a bit sunnier through the afternoon. Still hanging on to some cloud cover, Thompson and east, and places like Shamattawa, Churchill along the Hudson Bay Coast could be into a little bit of mixed precipitation or some flurries through the afternoon. Saturday, nice and sunny, carbon copy into Sunday once again for much of the province as well, although there is another quick clipper that will push across northern Manitoba into Sunday, and this will bring a bit of precipitation to the northern half of the province. So as we get through the afternoon, nice sunny sky, 11, 12 degrees for the western half of the province, 9s and 10s through the Red River Valley, slightly cooler where we will see some clearing a bit later on into northwestern Ontario sevens and eights through the afternoon uh seven with a cloudy sky in Thompson here's your weekend numbers 15 for Saturday 17 for Sunday and looking at temperatures that run four or five degrees above seasonal continuing right toward the middle of next week