Spring snow storm coming
 

Looks like a multi day southern Alberta snowstorm is on its way.

Hopefully it’s enough to help with boosting soil moisture and mountain snow packs.

Fingers crossed. Coming Tuesday night. Seems like a range of 10-50 cm. Heavy wet snow would be awesome.

50 cm of the heavy stuff would indeed be welcome.

Similar forecast around here.

Not too sure about the wet snow though. When that happens, power outages usually occur in this area.

But moisture will be good...

It won't happen or it will be just a dusting, why? I bought a snow blower 2 weeks ago.

I'll have to drive the back roads in it. Me, I would rather have rain.

Good one!!!.

Really hope we get it up here, drier than a popcorn fart right now. Really need water before spring.

I would prefer rain than snow.

It's a muddy mess around here, Fox Creek and GP. I really hope it cools off and freezes before the snow hits. I'd take an inch of rain in May over 3' of snow now.

The driest parts of the province will be missing out on this moisture. And yes, I'd rather see rain than snow at this time....but....I suppose beggars shouldn't be choosers, lol.

We need it to get sunny and warm and no wind after the snow so it melts and pools. Otherwise it will just sublimate and be gone as the ground is still frozen.

Oh don’t worry. I plated the street bike Saturday, mine will cancel yours out!

Special weather statement issued for here, hate to say it but I'm looking forward to the moisture.

Going to make for tough calving.
I'd prefer rain in a couple weeks

Yes it will. Mine are due to start March 30. Hopefully not too many early ones.

This is true, I know a couple of guys in the midst.

Glad we pushed back with a due date of April 12 this year... but any time after April 1 we could see some start to hit the ground.

At this point we will happily sacrifice some calves if it means we get a pile of moisture. Water table, soil moisture and forage growth is as bad as my FIL has seen in his 50 years running the ranch.

DR

What I need
 

I hope I get 12 feet. The snow is all gone and the temp is +16, no good for us.

The last snow we had melted and evaporated so didn't get much moisture left. Prefer rain to snow.

Neither would 12’ of snow be good for anything. Nobody seems to remember the huge storm in the northern states last spring. Sooo many critters perished because they couldn’t find food after that snow fall. Was really sad to see. Rain will come people, quit listening to the liberal doomsayers.

Considering that 12" of average formed snow equals 1" of water, I'm more inclined to pray for rain.
I'm still confident that it's going to be a wet spring/summer.
Seems to be what happens after exceptionally dry years.

I don’t know what it will take to convince people in this country to calve in May/June. I’ve done it from Feb to the end of May and it’s a head scratcher.

It’s March. In Alberta.

A belief in Nature, less desire to master Her?

Snow has started in Calgary.

We still have May long for our annual big dump. Ground should be thawed by then.

Million $$$ Snow

not getting any snow at all in the county of athabasca so far, and we only had about 10-15 cm all winter(none on the ground right now, all melted). in the north central region of alberta we generally do receive generous amounts of late spring and midsummer rain so the amount of snow is only an issue for insulating pasture grass and alfalfa. i hope those who depend on winter snow get what they need.

Looks like about 4-5 inches here so far. Not the 10-12 inch that was the max forecasted. Just a light snow falling. Ground was warm enough that the roads are pretty icy.

That 10-12 inches is supposed to take a few days, here's hoping they were wrong and we get a couple feet here and 5-6 feet up high in the mountains to give a longer consistent runoff in the rivers.

We have about 4" of dense snow here. Hard to tell for sure as the wind has blown it around quite a bit. We've already had more run off this spring than the past two years so I think the ground will be saturated by the time this is done.

I have 135 calves on the ground now. I really hope it stays froze up for a week.

I've calved my cows from January to May/June and am back to the middle of February. Calving during 2 weeks of cold, wet, muddy weather in May while also trying to get the crop in isn't a lot of fun either.