It was an honour to receive the Stuart Houston Award for Medical Imaging Research at the University of Saskatchewan Department of Radiology Research Day 2026 for my project titled “Radiologist Performance With and Without Artificial Intelligence Assistance for Pulmonary Nodule Detection on Chest CT: A Meta-Analysis.”

Environment Canada 🇨🇦 upgraded their global weather model today. Major change: hybrid machine learning (nudging) full-physics NWP World's first such global forecasting combined system --> huge skill gains.

Strong El Niño events with a peak ONI of ≥ 1.5°C have occurred 10 times in the CPC dataset. When looking at the following DJF season, most did not remain El Niño events: 5 were followed by La Niña, 4 were followed by neutral conditions, and only 1 was followed by another El Niño. Overall, this suggests that strong El Niño events most commonly transition toward La Niña or neutral ENSO conditions by the following winter, with persistence into another El Niño winter being uncommon. @webberweather @PaulRoundy1

It’s interesting because many of Toronto’s top snowstorms occur in these multi-year La Niña events eg Jan 2026, Feb 2023, Jan 2022, Feb 2008, Dec 2007, Jan 1999.

Model guidance shows an omega block forming across the centre of the continent this week, potentially leading to a record-breaking heatwave across Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Our Drs Sacoransky & Adams with Y. Chauhan performed a #meta-analysis of 23 studies evaluating #AI for #CT / #MRI protocoling across 1.19M requisitions. Fine-tuned BERT models led performance (BioBERT 93%), while LLMs showed strong future potential. #radiology #radresearch

Pretty scenes today in Saskatoon

Lots of snow this morning in Saskatoon. May is less than a week away… @weathernetwork

Snowed in today… #saskatoon

Yesterday’s daytime high in Saskatoon was −5°C, roughly 20°C below normal, as the Canadian Prairies remain under a trapped upper low within an omega blocking pattern.

Mother Nature hitting the pause button on Spring in Saskatchewan. @weathernetwork

Spring snowstorm bearing down on Saskatchewan for the third week in a row. #skstorm

Yesterday, Saskatoon got hit with another spring snow dump for the second week in a row. I’m about ready to wave the white flag and surrender to winter.

Only in Canada does the government weather service call it a “late-season winter storm” when, by all accounts—astronomical and meteorological—it’s already spring on the calendar.

Environment Canada press release from yesterday confirms a new GEM-AI hybrid model will be released this spring after about a year of parallel testing against the traditional model and on past storms. @ryanweather ECCC claims the hybrid should improve forecasts across short-, medium-, and long-range timescales, with their example being that a 6-day forecast would be as accurate as today’s 5-day forecast.  They also claim earlier detection of major systems by 8 to over 24 hours and better storm timing/track confidence. canada.ca/en/environment-cli…

April in Saskatoon ❄️

Saskatoon waking up to Spring snowstorm. About 15-20cm fell overnight. @weathernetwork

Spring snowstorm hits Saskatoon ❄️❄️ @weathernetwork