West Central Alberta Coldest, wettest edge | It seems that your weather pattern has now reached us out west now. forecast is calling for rain or snow for 6 of the next 7 days, way below average temperatures. Haven't had a drying day for weeks. In fact, we had a total of one really good haying day all summer. Crops are still far behind, inspite of being seeded earlier than average. Nothing has been harvested anywhere around here yet. The crops do look good though. An oldtimer neighbor claims that they have done more combining in October than September here historically. But I still have nightmares of 2002 when we had most of one day of harvesting weather here, then never another chance, the cows ate some really expensive very wet barley bales that winter. Never raked and baled in the snow before or since.
At least we aren't dealing with the wet ground that you have out east, that is a switch. In fact, our ground is closer to record dry than wet. Sloughs that I have never seen dry are bone dry, a spring fed creek nearby is just a trickle, hayed though wet ground that is never dry enough to even walk through. Yet Red Deer, just 45 minutes east is claiming their wettest summer in the past 10, and we have had some wet years in the past 10. We had a big rain event at the beginning of June, enough to flood any low crop land, then nothing till early July, then another flood, then nothing but showers and cool and humid all summer after that. |
Need A Change In The Weather Pattern
