Your forecast
Sunny. Wind from the south at 40 km/h gusting to 60. A heat warning is in effect for the city of Winnipeg. High 35 C. UV index 8 or very high.
The weather is hot now, but that is forecast to change later this week.
Manitoba is currently in the warm area of a southern low-pressure system that has pushed very hot air from the U.S. northward, bringing heat until Thursday. A cold front will sweep in Thursday night.
“It will feel kind of abrupt. We don’t normally have these temperatures at this time of year, so the shift from (hot) to very cool is not a typical occurrence,” said Natalie Hasell of Environment and Climate Change Canada. Malak Abas has more on the expected plunge in temperatures here.
Ansh Poddar, 2, and his father, Chandan, take a moment to enjoy the cool water at the fountain behind the Manitoba Legislative Building on Monday afternoon. (Mike Deal / Free Press)
What’s happening today
The Winnipeg Jets face the Dallas Stars in Game 4 of a second-round Stanley Cup playoff series. American Airlines Center, 7 p.m.
As Mike McIntyre reports, the Jets and Stars have seen plenty of each other this year, with four regular-season meetings now followed by a best-of-seven playoff series. Read more here.
Winnipeg Jets’ Connor Hellebuyck and Adam Lowry react as the Dallas Stars players celebrate after scoring in Game 3 in Dallas, Sunday. (Julio Cortez / The Associated Press files)
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to name his new cabinet at Rideau Hall this morning — and it’s expected to be a slimmed-down front bench meant to signal a more businesses-minded approach to government.
The swearing-in ceremony will take place at Rideau Hall at 9:30 a.m. CT. The Canadian Press has more here.
Today’s must-read
A fast-spreading wildfire prompted emergency evacuations, sparked explosions and damaged or destroyed an undetermined number of buildings in north Transcona Monday afternoon.
Fire crews responded to the blaze, located on the south side of Gunn Road and east of Day Street, just after 2 p.m. and fought against soaring temperatures and high winds before containing the fire at about 5 p.m., Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service deputy fire chief Scott Wilkinson said.
“Right now, we do know we’ve lost a few structures on both sides of the fire along the south side of Gunn,” Wilkinson told reporters at the scene. Tyler Searle has the story.
Passersby at the end of Wabasha Street watch plumes of smoke from a massive fire in north Transcona on Monday afternoon. (Erik Pindera / Free Press)
On the bright side
Jupiter’s dazzling auroras are hundreds of times brighter than those seen on Earth, new images from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal.
The solar system’s largest planet displays striking dancing lights when high-energy particles from space collide with atoms of gas in the atmosphere near its magnetic poles, similar to how the northern lights are triggered on Earth. The Associated Press has more here.
This image provided by NASA shows new details of the auroras on Jupiter captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA via The Associated Press)
On this date
On May 13, 1933: The Winnipeg Free Press reported in Leipzig, Germany, Jewish retaliation to the German antisemitism movement took formidable form as an international boycott of the city’s noted fur market, arranged by Jewish buyers, saw approximately $3 million worth of furs withdrawn from the sale because of a lack of French, English and U.S. buyers. An attempt by the Nazi party to retain buyers met with no success. In Alberta, three women died in a car crash near Calgary after heavy rains made for poor driving conditions. Read the rest of this day’s paper here. Search our archives for more here.
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