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Taken 10 minutes ago west of Delisle.
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No Guff- Agreed, spectacular photo by Kate!
One thing… out here, nobody calls them silos, (simply, grain bins). Our ‘silos’ are generally for silage (what a concept!) and extremely tall. No offence, just sayin’.
As for an earlier comment as to the sketchiness of the canola crop, many would kill for something that good this year. Some have rolled sevens, but for others, disaster is more apt.
At the midnight hour in CDT, severe storm front is approaching Winnipeg and Red River valley, expect some severe wind gusts and possible hail, frequent lightning. Still lots of rain falling in parts of central Alberta and the centre of this slowly dying pinwheel of moisture is drifting along a bit south of due east, near Rosetown SK now, should be near Yorkton by mid-day tomorrow, pulling along all the little bits and pieces with it. The more severe action will shift rather steadily south to a new system forming in Wyoming and moving across the northern plains, so this will allow western Canada to recover to nearly normal July temps and dry out a bit although some more scattered t’storms are possible.
Hi Pete.
Agriculturally, a late spring is when the ground stays wet and cold and the crops are seeded late.
Since there are millions of unseeded acres due to too much moisture in the ground that never dried out this yr in West Canada, we have had an extreme version of a late spring.
An early fall is when the snows come early and the crops are still not completely harvested.
That may or may not be the case this yr.
This is a weather cycle that happens whether we want it to or not.
Since you are a professional meteorologist I would guess that you know all about weather cycles and that there have been many years without summers.
Actually I’m a blacklisted trained climatologist who does some forecasting using more or less standard meteorology with some of my own research thrown in when helpful. But as to the late spring or early fall thing, I was making a vague reference to the fact that we are near the theoretical hottest part of summer — in climatology they arbitrarily divide “late spring” and “early fall” events by the date July 1st, such as late or early frosts, etc, although only certain climates pose much of a strain on that paradigm. I believe that the non-summer of 1816 presented corn growers in western NY with frosts in each month and that’s one of the reasons it got the reputation of being the “year without a summer” although in fact there was some summer weather between the unusual cold spells. The year 1992 in recent memory was rather bereft of true summer weather in Ontario at least, but there was still a reasonable crop and nobody died. Years like that back in the medieval period were not so kind.
Well, the unusual cold spell has just about run its course now as the cloud breaks up and permits some sunshine to boost temperatures, but meanwhile, the cold fronts have wandered into a zone further south where they are attacking a very hot and humid air mass — thank God you don’t live in Iowa, the temp there today is around 35 but the humidity is very high thanks to the sweat of the corn crops, dew points are near 29 C and the humidex is anywhere from 42 to 49 C.
Later on there’s going to be some nasty tornadic storms in this frontal zone and if you live in southern Ontario the remnants will be moving in there late Thursday, could be the next big weather story for Canadian readers. Today’s action is likely to be strongest in south-central Wisconsin and the MN-IA border regions.
No Guff- Agreed, spectacular photo by Kate!
One thing… out here, nobody calls them silos, (simply, grain bins). Our ‘silos’ are generally for silage (what a concept!) and extremely tall. No offence, just sayin’.
As for an earlier comment as to the sketchiness of the canola crop, many would kill for something that good this year. Some have rolled sevens, but for others, disaster is more apt.
At the midnight hour in CDT, severe storm front is approaching Winnipeg and Red River valley, expect some severe wind gusts and possible hail, frequent lightning. Still lots of rain falling in parts of central Alberta and the centre of this slowly dying pinwheel of moisture is drifting along a bit south of due east, near Rosetown SK now, should be near Yorkton by mid-day tomorrow, pulling along all the little bits and pieces with it. The more severe action will shift rather steadily south to a new system forming in Wyoming and moving across the northern plains, so this will allow western Canada to recover to nearly normal July temps and dry out a bit although some more scattered t’storms are possible.
Hi Pete.
Agriculturally, a late spring is when the ground stays wet and cold and the crops are seeded late.
Since there are millions of unseeded acres due to too much moisture in the ground that never dried out this yr in West Canada, we have had an extreme version of a late spring.
An early fall is when the snows come early and the crops are still not completely harvested.
That may or may not be the case this yr.
This is a weather cycle that happens whether we want it to or not.
Since you are a professional meteorologist I would guess that you know all about weather cycles and that there have been many years without summers.
Actually I’m a blacklisted trained climatologist who does some forecasting using more or less standard meteorology with some of my own research thrown in when helpful. But as to the late spring or early fall thing, I was making a vague reference to the fact that we are near the theoretical hottest part of summer — in climatology they arbitrarily divide “late spring” and “early fall” events by the date July 1st, such as late or early frosts, etc, although only certain climates pose much of a strain on that paradigm. I believe that the non-summer of 1816 presented corn growers in western NY with frosts in each month and that’s one of the reasons it got the reputation of being the “year without a summer” although in fact there was some summer weather between the unusual cold spells. The year 1992 in recent memory was rather bereft of true summer weather in Ontario at least, but there was still a reasonable crop and nobody died. Years like that back in the medieval period were not so kind.
Well, the unusual cold spell has just about run its course now as the cloud breaks up and permits some sunshine to boost temperatures, but meanwhile, the cold fronts have wandered into a zone further south where they are attacking a very hot and humid air mass — thank God you don’t live in Iowa, the temp there today is around 35 but the humidity is very high thanks to the sweat of the corn crops, dew points are near 29 C and the humidex is anywhere from 42 to 49 C.
Later on there’s going to be some nasty tornadic storms in this frontal zone and if you live in southern Ontario the remnants will be moving in there late Thursday, could be the next big weather story for Canadian readers. Today’s action is likely to be strongest in south-central Wisconsin and the MN-IA border regions.