 |
06-30-2021, 05:45 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Camrose county
Posts: 3,492
|
|
This bloody heat is getting worrisome, is this the beginning of a drought?
Unless I'm way of base which I hope I am,is this heat wave a concern for our farmers ? I water my garden every evening and still stuff is drying up, I can't imagine what's happening in fields ,must be getting awful dry now I'm guessing, hope we get rain soon to cool things down,all the best to you guys stay cool.
__________________
If people concentrated on the really important things in life,there would be a shortage of fishing poles.Doug larson. Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright.
|
06-30-2021, 05:53 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2021
Location: Grande prairie, alberta
Posts: 505
|
|
Yes.
|
06-30-2021, 06:13 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2008
Posts: 2,616
|
|
Sloughs and dugout levels are dropping fast this week.
__________________
Thank you front line workers and volunteers
|
06-30-2021, 06:24 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2015
Posts: 330
|
|
It’s okay. We don’t need farmers- food comes from grocery stores...
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
__________________
NEVER FORGET:
"I came to Ottawa with the firm belief that the only people in this country who should have guns are police officers and soldiers."
— Allan Rock, Canada's Minister of Justice
Maclean's "Taking aim on guns", 1994 April 25, Vol.107 Issue 17, page 12.
"... protection of life is NOT a legitimate use for a firearm in this country sir! Not! That is expressly ruled out!".
— Justice Minister Allan Rock
|
06-30-2021, 07:48 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: near Calgary
Posts: 6,651
|
|
We have no ground water
All sloughs are dry except for the algae infested puddles. I went out to check the irrigation ditch DU was supposed to give us controlled water levels with when they flooded weed lake and it is dry. No water for the brooding ducks unless they congregate in the algae pools. I foresee a very large kill off from avian botulism in the summer. Neighbor farms along Weed Lake and reported the water level dropped enough to expose 60 feet of mud from normal levels to where the water starts now. that will be another botulism site this year.
We would need about 3 weeks of rain to get us to a tolerable level but I dont see that happening until September if at all.
__________________
 a hunting we will go!!!!!!
|
06-30-2021, 07:49 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 4,333
|
|
gather up
Some buffalo skulls when the sloughs dry up like last time.
|
06-30-2021, 08:48 PM
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: YEG
Posts: 9,981
|
|
I just checked the weather forecast for Edmonton and it says rain all next week 
|
06-30-2021, 09:47 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: McBride/Prince George
Posts: 14,582
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pioneer2
Some buffalo skulls when the sloughs dry up like last time.
|
Bittern lake west of camrose is a good place for buffalo skulls when it’s totally dry.
|
06-30-2021, 10:03 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 3,083
|
|
My sunflowers growing 1’/day.
|
06-30-2021, 10:16 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Camrose county
Posts: 3,492
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by RandyBoBandy
I just checked the weather forecast for Edmonton and it says rain all next week |
I hope you are right we are definitely in need of some serious rain.
__________________
If people concentrated on the really important things in life,there would be a shortage of fishing poles.Doug larson. Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright.
|
06-30-2021, 10:24 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,842
|
|
Dry land crops in the very south of the province have already been wrote off. It's the worst some have seen in the Milk River area.
|
07-01-2021, 02:44 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Camrose county
Posts: 3,492
|
|
The crops aren't doing good here either I seen a farmer out checking his today it's got to be bad..
__________________
If people concentrated on the really important things in life,there would be a shortage of fishing poles.Doug larson. Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright.
|
07-01-2021, 10:40 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Fort Sask, AB
Posts: 4,924
|
|
I’ve got 2 Super Chili potted plants, sprouting 25-30 peppers ea.
Couldn’t even get them to start in previous years.
TBark
|
07-01-2021, 10:47 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Calgary
Posts: 19,420
|
|
There is a week of rain in the forecast, so hopefully that helps crops to recover. The heat wave is certainly tolerable and its short lived, I only really worry for the farmers.
It does make me wonder how much more of the snowpack got melted than normally would have, will we be seeing lower than normal river levels for the duration of the summer?
__________________
"The trouble with people idiot-proofing things, is the resulting evolution of the idiot." Me
|
07-01-2021, 11:20 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: McBride/Prince George
Posts: 14,582
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by CaberTosser
There is a week of rain in the forecast, so hopefully that helps crops to recover. The heat wave is certainly tolerable and its short lived, I only really worry for the farmers.
It does make me wonder how much more of the snowpack got melted than normally would have, will we be seeing lower than normal river levels for the duration of the summer?
|
Rivers are roaring right now in the mountains. Due to the heat. She’s melting to fast up high.
|
07-02-2021, 12:12 AM
|
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 1,779
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Talking moose
Rivers are roaring right now in the mountains. Due to the heat. She’s melting to fast up high.
|
Looks uneven though. From the data on the AB Rivers app the Athabasca and upper Bow are roaring but the smaller streams in the Oldman basin are pretty low already. I’m a little worried about what we’ll see in August.
|
07-02-2021, 11:40 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Nobleford
Posts: 640
|
|
We pretty much started the farming season as a drought. In the south anyway we had very little snow and none or limited sub surface moisture. Some moisture in the spring gave us good emergence with most crops and the inch of rain after seeding got us going pretty good. Since then we’ve only gotten 6 tenths in two showers. Dryland crops across a wide area of the south are now in critical condition with cereals a total failure in some cases and thin canola trying to flower in the heat and suffering from heat blast.
As an agronomist I cover the area between Magrath and Carmangay. You can see more on my YouTube channel AgroPlus News from the field.
|
07-02-2021, 02:15 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 8,340
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Talking moose
Rivers are roaring right now in the mountains. Due to the heat. She’s melting to fast up high.
|
Plague, drought, fires, next will be floods...
BW
|
07-02-2021, 03:15 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Calgary
Posts: 2,319
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by JeanCretien
It’s okay. We don’t need farmers- food comes from grocery stores...
|
The scary thing is that far too many "city folks" and "woke", actually believe that!
Just like you hunters who "should get your meat from the grocery store where no animals were harmed". 
And what's real horrifying is that they get to VOTE too!! 
|
07-02-2021, 04:41 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 0
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by stuckincity
The scary thing is that far too many "city folks" and "woke", actually believe that!
Just like you hunters who "should get your meat from the grocery store where no animals were harmed".
And what's real horrifying is that they get to VOTE too!! |
I have to ask, what is the origin of those stickers
I live in the city and have yet to meet anyone who thinks that food doesn't come from a farm.
|
07-02-2021, 04:58 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 6,496
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigwoodsman
Plague, drought, fires, next will be floods...
BW
|
Then locusts. Then 4 riding black horses. Then multitudes marching with their big kettle drums.
When The Man Comes Around.
__________________
You matter. Unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light squared... ...then you energy.
|
07-02-2021, 05:41 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 3,281
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigwoodsman
Plague, drought, fires, next will be floods...
BW
|
We’re just getting our downtown up and going a year after it was all wiped out with the flood of 2020.
|
07-02-2021, 06:04 PM
|
 |
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Caroline
Posts: 7,276
|
|
Drought is over here....for now anyways. That was quite a rainstorm and crazy winds
__________________
Two reasons you may think CO2 is a pollutant
1.You weren't paying attention in grade 5
2. You're stupid
|
07-02-2021, 06:28 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: calgary
Posts: 3,007
|
|
Reading and listing to some weather experts today and already talking about another on the way in about 7 to 10 days coming up from California this time. Expects peak temps close yo only 40 this time not 50. We are not done yet. Saw it on some U.S. sites too warning people down there already.
__________________
|
07-02-2021, 07:17 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Camrose county
Posts: 3,492
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by calgarygringo
Reading and listing to some weather experts today and already talking about another on the way in about 7 to 10 days coming up from California this time. Expects peak temps close yo only 40 this time not 50. We are not done yet. Saw it on some U.S. sites too warning people down there already.
|
I hope that you are mistaken,I hate these heat waves.
__________________
If people concentrated on the really important things in life,there would be a shortage of fishing poles.Doug larson. Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright.
|
07-02-2021, 07:32 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Camrose county
Posts: 3,492
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by MountainTi
Drought is over here....for now anyways. That was quite a rainstorm and crazy winds
|
It ain't over here yet we had a little shower this morning nothing else,good thing is though the temperature has dropped 10 degrees which makes it a lot more tolerable. Inyears gone by after a big heat there would be a big thunderstorm and rain and sometimes hail, nothing like that this summer.its all changed it seems.
__________________
If people concentrated on the really important things in life,there would be a shortage of fishing poles.Doug larson. Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright.
|
07-02-2021, 07:34 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Camrose county
Posts: 3,492
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bigrib
|
That's some scary stuff there..
__________________
If people concentrated on the really important things in life,there would be a shortage of fishing poles.Doug larson. Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright.
|
07-02-2021, 07:38 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Camrose county
Posts: 3,492
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by TBark
I’ve got 2 Super Chili potted plants, sprouting 25-30 peppers ea.
Couldn’t even get them to start in previous years.
TBark
|
Every cloud has a silver lining, my dad use to say.
__________________
If people concentrated on the really important things in life,there would be a shortage of fishing poles.Doug larson. Theres a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright.
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 11:57 PM.
|
Linear Mode
