West Central Alberta Coldest, wettest edge | Thank you for all of your efforts Jon, you are certainly the hardest working poster on NAT. I am always fascinated by weather, history, trends, forecasting etc. Please keep it coming.
I believe Markwright made a mention a couple of years ago that the drought would be moving north, just like what you are mentioning.
A lot of info lately that makes it look like this past 20-30 years was the exception to "normal" weather. A period in which both temperature and rainfall were above average, and crops failures were rare, while crops moved into traditionally drier and colder regions. Now, if the cycles play out as planned, the implications are substantial, considering that the world is living basically hand to mouth. We used all of the production, plus all of the reserves from past years. The world used up nearly all of the surpluses during a period of increasingly positive, and relatively consistent, growing conditions. Now, if conditions go the other way for a sustained period of time, what happens, can't draw on reserves any more? |
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