Access background information on how and why wind trajectories are monitored. Reverse and forward trajectories are available in this report.
1. REVERSE TRAJECTORIES (RT)
Since May 1, 2022, the majority of reverse trajectories that have crossed the prairies have originated from the Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Oregon and Washington). This past week (June 21-27, 2022) the number of incoming trajectories was lower than the week of June 14-20, 2022 (Fig. 1).

a. Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Oregon, Washington) – The majority of Pacific Northwest reverse trajectories continue to pass over southern and central Alberta and western Saskatchewan (Fig. 2). This past week (June 21-27, 2022) the ECCC model predicted that 77 reverse trajectories would cross the prairies. This is significantly less than the number of reverse trajectories predicted for the period of June 14-20 (n=124).

b. Mexico and southwest USA (Texas, California) – This week (June 21-27, 2022), a total of 13 reverse trajectories were predicted to cross the prairies (n=44 for June 14-20). Most reverse trajectories from this region of southern North America have crossed Manitoba during the 2022 growing season.

c. Oklahoma and Texas – This week reverse trajectories have passed over Manitoba and Watrous, Saskatchewan (Fig. 4). This week there were significantly fewer (n=5) reverse trajectories than for the period of June 14-20, 2022 (n=33).

d. Nebraska and Kansas – This past week (June 21-27, 2022), reverse trajectories originating from Kansas and Nebraska have crossed Manitoba and Yorkton, Saskatchewan (Fig. 5). The ECCC model predicted that 5 reverse trajectories passed over the prairies. This is a significant decrease from the previous week (n=51).

2. FORWARD TRAJECTORIES (FT)
The following map presents the total number of dates (since April 1, 2022) with forward trajectories (originating from Mexico and USA) that were predicted to cross the Canadian prairies (Fig. 6). This week (June 21-27, 2022) there was a decrease in the number of (n=19) forward trajectories predicted to cross the prairies (last week n=50). Results indicate that the greatest number of forward trajectories entering the prairies have originated from the Pacific Northwest (Idaho, Oregon, Washington), Montana and Wyoming.

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