Now is the time at SDA when we jog some memories!
And still the dust blew.On June 24 it blew with such fury that it forced the Moose Jaw fair to cancel its horse races and shut down. The force of the storms blowing across southern Saskatchewan was felt as far east as Winnipeg, where once again a dust haze obscured the sun.
Highways became so drifted with dust as to be impassable. South of Moose Jaw the blowing alkali from dried-up Johnstone Lake coated the countryside a dirty white and drove everybody indoors. Sixty miles to the south, near the town of Rockglen, Fife Lake, which had once been thirty-five miles long, dried up completely. Far to the east in the Oxbow area, the Lake of the Rivers went dry and in the process a great mass of prehistoric buffalo bones was uncovered. The farmers of the area lived that year on the returns they got from the fertilizer plants for the carloads of bones them managed to harvest. Near Arcola, the trains were dealyed by the myriads of grasshoppers that lit on the rails and were ground to grease.
The Saskatchewan crop was destroyed by the fourth week of June. Then the heat got worse. At the end of June, 100-degree temperatures were common everywhere and the areas as far north as Prince Albert got a bitter taste of what Regina and Moose Jaw had experienced in 1936. The peak came on July 5 when it touched 110 degrees at Regina, Moose Jaw, and a dozen other southern communities. For the rest of the summer ninety-degree heat was the rule, for the hot weather extended well into August, and the records established all over on August 23, when it went well over the 100-degree mark again.
There had been hotter Junes than 1937, hotter Julys, and hotter Augusts, but taken together there had never been a longer and hotter summer.
James H. Gray - The Winter Years
But the weather in Ontario and parts of Quebec are hot! So all of Canada is hot. Record heat across Canada. Crap I don't know if Southern AB will see 30 this summer. And what's with the rain, rain, rain, rain.....stop already. Although it's a gorgeous green!
Successful investment people rely on it.
Hollywood uses it.
Dictators exploit it.
Latte liberals use it as a ruling-class tool.
Consumer product's hype is effective because of it.
The Lamestream Media makes Billion$ because of it.
What is 'it'? The fact that most people have short memories.
Question: Why do some people not remember the important things that have happened before? Have they never heard of 'been there, done that'? Why do they not learn from the mistakes of others? IOW why are they so susceptible to scams and hoaxes? Why are they so eager to risk their life savings on windmills and carbon capture just because some science-less editor OKs some flaky journalist's fiction writing?
It would not be so bad except that they are so adamant that our politicians force everybody else to also buy into their no-memory mindset.
Rain is forecast for north of Saskatoon again on Friday. May and June were cool here, but July has seen a number of 30 degree days and a number of stormy downpours. The 1" or more rains just keep coming.
There is a small lake (big slough)locally and no one alive remembers when it was this high. One adjacent road is under water and another is on the edge of being submerged.
It is amazing how the carbon tax crowd seize on any weather event that suits their religion to press their claims, but ignore similar events in history.
That was the year that finally did my grand father's farm in. He packed up the family and just abandoned the homestead in Landis (not far from our hostess). They stopped when they got to Sydney Forks on Cape Breton Island.
Daddy Cliff was determined that he would finish up back in the land he loved. Died in a retirement home in Saskatoon in '75.
July 5, 1937: Yellow Grass, Sask. high temperature was 115 F (45 C). That was, I believe the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada.
I was only 5 years old but, I remember that summer well and can tie it to the year from hearing my father say, "We'll never forget the summer of 1937." It really was a vision of hell.
wiki [The highest temperature ever recorded in Winnipeg was 42.2 °C (108 °F) on July 11, 1936]
"the highest temperature ever recorded in Canada."
True enough, Zog. I remember reading that fact shortly before moving to Sask about 20 years ago. I also thought Yellow Grass was an oddly named place. Little did I know I would buy many many off-sale 12 packs at the Yellow Grass Hotel on my way to Regina.
Wikipedia says the winner is ... Yellow Grass, July 5, 1937 at 113 F or 45C. I'll bet it was nothing but brown grass then.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_extremes_in_Canada
BTW - Winter Years is a great read.
Y'know, all of this heat could be cured by the Gore Effect - quick schedule meetings for Al in the hottest parts of North America. Keep him away from SK though. We have had great pool and beach weather lately.
1 word: anecdotal
"1 word: anecdotal"
Two words: pompous and ignorant. No, wait, that's three words. Do I count the "and"? Jeez, it's hot around here.
or the 2 meters of ice covering Hudson Bay and is salt water. 1 metre = aprox. 3.5ft.
while showing wide open blue water on weather maps all winters long.
I've wrote to them several times CBC and CTV over several winters complaining about this but they won't listen.
Did AlGoracle exist in 1937? By that account, we were doomed to a world without iceberg and polar bears by the 50s.
Oh vey
Anecdotal = facts inconveient to a leftoid...
Hereabouts a few idots (with a solar panel as a lawn ornament) have made a big deal about a very wet spring that then turned into a drought towards the end on June.
You want to watch them simmer when I remind them that most summers we get a 3-4 week sabatical from mowing lawns about this time. Last year being exceptional....having to buzz the lawn every damn week.
We had a thunder-dunder a coupla days past that just laid the dust but inspired the dogs to share my bed about dawn...and me to water the veggies as soon as the TOD cheap period kicked in at 7PM (grrrr).
The local Fire chief has extended the "burn ban" and expressed fear of "field fires".(ripening winter wheat) Some local lads had a bear stand up and look over a fence at them baling hay (near Embro Ont).
Current temp 100F...saw a dog chasin' a cat...both walkin'......
I carry a chunka 1/4 plate(4X4 with a starter cord) for my kick stand....even after sunset...
"There had been hotter Junes than 1937, hotter Julys, and hotter Augusts, but taken together there had never been a longer and hotter summer."
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Wish I could write such a concise comment.
I've had that book sitting on my bookshelf for years,NOW I'm going to read it.
When I was a kid in Manitoba, old-timers used to say that the 1930's had Summers way hotter,and Winters way colder than in the 1960's. I took it for the exaggeration of old minds.
Now I'm one of the old-timers,and the kids look at me the same way when I reminisce.
Ahhh the good old days, when tempeture was just wheather. Not a cause for tax hikes or blatent acolyptical stories of fantasy.
Remember: ""hot time summer in city, back of my neck feeling dirty and gritty" - Lovin Spoonful 1970's?
The soles of my shoes used to stick to Montreal pavement then, fer chrissakes! What is with these South Ontario whiners? IT'S SUMMER! IT'S HOT! Shut up, have a beer and chill out about it. Enjoy the heat. You'll be raking leaves in a few weeks and trying to ride your bikes in the snow sooner than you think.
My father-in-law(he died back in '06 age 84) used to say that when he was a teen in the '30s that they used to sleep out doors on the grass(no jackets) after the barn dances it was so warm in the summer back then.
Anecdotal, yes, political, no.
He was just reminiscing about the way it was up in Thorhild Alberta back then.
Here in Vancouver....rain. And unseasonably cold.
If it were not for the pervasive cloud cover, we'd have no weather at all.
Al Gore....Kiss My A$$....
So, does anyone know how the $2 bill got the name - Moose Jaw buck?
Not for sure 002, but I recollect the common reference of that being the fare for a 'ride' on River Street in that fair town.
Don't worry, the camera hog David Phillips will soon pop up to blame EVIL globull warming on MAN, evil man, causes all this mayhem, to stupid to read this book or Pallisers diarys where the South Sask was not enough water for a horse in 1862. No Fat Al and Suzuker told him it was MAAAN.
I've been told (I was much too young in them days!) that 2 bucks was the standard fare in any western Canadian city. Thus there was a certain degree of opprobrium associated with the $2 bill.
Note to all editors
Puff 'Heat Dome'
Anecdotal; my dad remembered the 30's all too well. In his part of the prairies '37 was the worst year with no harvest. He used the binder to cut and bunch the russian thistles for horse feed.
We are so fortunate that years like that are so distant in the past that some people can scoff that it ever was that warm. Also fortunate that we have tractors and trucks and don't have to devote a significant amount of our land to feeding horses.
This blog can talk about how hot it was in the 30's, but at that time, the permafrost wasn't melting. Southern species weren't slowly migrating northward (say hi to the pine beetle) The growing season was roughly 10-14 days shorter, and nobody was worried about the militarization of the Arctic.
At the very least, deny humans are warming the planet... don't stick with this bone-headed belief that the trend isn't toward a warmer planet when all date says otherwise.
Well, John; Up here in the Yukon (where the perma frost lives!) we have had a very cool spring and summer. The perma frost is safe for this year. I would like to see any of the Globull warmer kooks up here this summer - They promised us warmer summers and I wish to collect, they can pay me in ice credits or cool cash - I feel 'entitled' to a warm winter and I will need to go far south this winter to get my fair share of the warming.
I have not seen any barbed wire fences or tanks yet - they better hurry up with the militarization thingie - its almost winter and it is impossible to dig post holes or start a tank when it is 30 to 40 below.
John, it's not all data and maybe even very little data. Speaking of short growing season, last year we had hard frost on June 1 and grainfields froze to feed in mid September.
The heat maps lie, by the way. Those are not temperatures, those are Real-Feel(tm) numbers which are "calculated" based on a variety of inputs, one of which is editorial whim no doubt.
I guarantee Phoenix is hotter today than NYC. Anything over 110F, dry heat is just as bad as humid. I remember it -hurting- to go outside at 115F in Arizona. Whole month of 115+ down there pretty much every year.
No AC in my truck the first summer I was there. One hour commute. Oh baby it was hot. Drove with the windows -up- because the breeze made it hotter. Long pants and long sleeves for insulation. Had a little portable mist bottle to spray water on my face, nice bit of comfort there until it ran out. Ran out halfway home. :(
So, no complaints about the measly 98F in the shade we had yesterday. Power failure too. Generator saved the fridge, yay!
for the "Johns" who post here:
6.5. Possible causes of climate change
Early Holocene changes are due to changes in insolation (Fritz et al., 2001). The final
melt of the Laurentide ice sheet brought to this area increase in aridity. For Fritz et al
(2001) the west-east moisture pattern is possibly explained by a sequence of changes in
the location and configuration of the Rossby waves. According to Fritz et al. (2001) the
Great Plains have featured more climatic variability during the last 2000 yr than during
7000-5000 yr B.P. possibly related to the onset El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
phenomenon dated at about 6100 yr B.P. (Riedinger et al. 2002).
In terms of droughts, they have been related to anomalies in sea surface temperature
(SST) in the North Pacific. Anomalies in the SST of the North Pacific may vary on
decadal scales and produce decadal scale variations in climate over northern North
America (Case and MacDonald, 1995).
From: http://www.parc.ca/mcri/pdfs/papers/iacc022.pdf
It's an interesting read on paleo climate of a section of the Canadian prairies, since the demise of the Laurentide Ice Sheet.
I'm always amused at the squirming a 'warmist' goes through when I ask them if they'd prefer 2 miles of ice sitting on their house or let the glaciers keep melting.....that said, at least there's a modicum of relief in the US..although I tend to think it's petty politics instead of common sense...
WASHINGTON — A panel of the US Congress on Thursday moved to bar foreign assistance related to climate change, defying President Barack Obama’s calls to contribute as part of an international accord.
On a party line vote, the Republican-led House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to ban funding in next year’s budget for Obama’s initiative to support poor nations in adapting to climate change or pursuing clean energy.
But the measure’s future is uncertain as other committees also have jurisdiction over climate funding including in the Senate, where Obama’s Democratic Party is in control.
Representative Connie Mack, a Republican from Florida, said he proposed the funding cut as “we have to prioritize US tax dollars.” Jean Schmidt, a Republican from Ohio, questioned if human activity was causing climate change.
Democrats attacked the move. Representative Howard Berman, the top Democrat on the committee, said it would cut off funding for vulnerable populations that are already feeling the effects of climate change.
Gerry Connolly, a Democrat from Virginia, likened the Republican effort to the 1925 Scopes monkey trial in which a Tennessee teacher was taken to court for teaching evolution.