Melt down

[Bonescreek]

Down south of the boarder here we are suffering through a heat and mostly
humidity wave. It's that time of year dog days of Aug.

How's things by you ?

[leeaspell]

Pretty rainy

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[Bonescreek]

Man! weve got 2" inches of rain 2 nights ago about 12:00 am with tons of lightning. That was the only rain weve had since Apr.
That you could measure in a rain guage, the rest is due on the lawn, that's
it. Down here the sky just sweats or it don't rain at all.

On the other hand if you want me send up your way some wind (90+mph)
and or wind shears or tornatoes your way let me know.

We got's lightning bolts to spare. :-)

[Smokinyotes]

Wettest coldest crappiest summer I can remember. Rain almost every day. And still not done the first cut of hay. Another month there will be stuck combines and swathers everywhere

[Bonescreek]

Sure would be nice to see some of that wet and cooler weather swing down
this way.

I'm no big beliver in global warming in anyway except I'm not stupid, yes
there simply are too damn many people on the earth today. And yes all
the asphalt and concrete does make a differance.

I also understand things (life) goes on in cycles. So I simply sit back and
listen to all the others explain. :-)

Guess that makes me part of the problem, I don't care.
I don't feel a great need to change things, I simply couldn't do it if I wanted
to by myself.

So there it is then.

Wow that was like sayin' "The fool on the hill with his eyes in his head"
"See's the world spinning 'round".

There could be sometimes in you lifetime you could make change.
Other times you cannot or it would not right to do so.

History has shown this, mostly only the efforts for the good of all
people have prevailed, flip side of that coin is sometimes decades or longer of
the worst have ruled.

It all goes in cycles.

[tri777]

2019: The summer that never was.
3rd week of August is always a week of beauty & awesome heat & blue skies for me. I seen 20 geese way up flying today & its cold like Oct.
This is the 1st ever yr my basement flooded. It is quite a thing to walk in a persons own house & have to wear rubber boots. 2019= worst wet summer ever with '97 a distant 2nd.

[IR_mike]

-1c one mile east of La Corey Alberta at friends place this morning at 5:30 AM.

+3 at 2:30 AM this morning here 12 miles to the west.

[Bonescreek]

Kind of related maybe not, a couple of years ago I saw and heard about
the melt down of the northern ice cap that would lend a way in summer
for ships to pass. Was a big hoodoo about weather the US or Russia would
try to stake claim to the waters.

Where does is that at today ?

I'm a proffesser like Larry, Curley and Moe..
"Where does is".

After that line, I could be a runner up for David Letterman on the late, late
night show.

:-)

[Bonescreek]

Sorry about the grammatic error above, watching the local news on TV has
sunk into my head so much I speak the same gibberish.

Example.. News flash a car has overturned on route 460 east, delaying
traffic. And burst into flames, the driver was wearing a seat belt.

Picture --> A ford F150 pickup hung up on the gauard rail.

Doh!

Car .. Pickup .. Doh! Was he wearing a seat belt, that's what we want
to know!

[does it ALL outdoors]

Originally Posted by Smokinyotes

Wettest coldest crappiest summer I can remember. Rain almost every day.

^^^ Yea, this..

[Bonescreek]

Does it all outdoors,

I understand your pain.

[Bonescreek]

I can remember about 12 years ago or so when I just moved down here
and was lookin' plannin' about hunting the first fall deer season.

I spent 5 or six days getting ready, I had trees picked out from scouting
to the climbing stand up in. everything down to the first mins. of dawn breaking
upon opening day was layed out ahead of time.

Then it came opening day first Sat. of Oct. 5:54 with a pen lite flash light
slinking out in the darkness to an oak behind the farm in the woods.

Got the climber up slooowly quietly without a sound as best I could.
Set it and got in posistion 20 feet off the ground. The sun comes up..

A faint ghost of a deer aproches 55, 45 yards coming in..
Dark clouds come over head the sun goes back down, the rain starts to fall
like ice in really big a-ss drops. First one than two etc. etc.
Now the wind picks up. was no wind before.

The tree sways and rocks me back and forth, can't see the deer anymore
simply holding on with both hands to keep from falling down.
And then the rain REALLY came down. Buckets are not the word.
And the wind blew.

I was soaked to my skivies 20 feet up in a tree and only wanted to get home.

15 mins. later the storm was over and I was back at home shedin' wet closes
then the sun came out.

Just like that.

[Supergrit]

Terrible summer worst one I can remember the rain has not stopped the farmers are going to be bad off again. In my area I think this might sink a few farms to many bad years in a row.

[Bonescreek]

Down here I'm complaining about heat and humidity.
Up there you got too much rain.

Over all too wet. You think ?

I have seen drought years down here too in the last 12 years.
No hum. no rain. for a long, long time.

Just saying.

Also have seen winters with 3 feet of snow fall in one storm, other years
no snow at all.

This is why I don't buy into global warming, like I said in another post yes the
concrete and asphalt and overpop. makes a diff. But I think the big pict.
is more in just the way things cycle by natural events.

If nature and or god should decide to cull back the concrete and asphalt and
over population to get things back in a normalized way of being then so be it.

I'ld be ok with that.

[tri777]

Alberta is obviously in some weird season of being punished on multiple levels. Somethings afoot, can't wait for normality to once again return.

[Bonescreek]

Yea you can wait, you have time.

Alberta is in no way as bad off as so many other places out there.

One of the few with there heads still screwed on right.

[58thecat]

6 over night high of 15.......windy......oh....rain....got some reloading to do

[1899b]

Last year I had the top and doors off the jeep for a good 3 weeks straight. Mind you it was terribly smoky and not a lot of sun seen due to the BC smoke but it was warm. This year it’s been a wash. Rain rain rain...

[CNP]

On the continental divide in SW AB. Close to borders of MT/BC. Growing season here reported by the Farmers Almanac is 26 days.

Has been a great summer as far I am concerned. Most summer days in low/mid 70s and overnight 40/50s Humidity is never a factor.

[6.5 shooter]

Motorcycle weather here...couple days of rain but that is it, pretty dry summer.

[brslk]

Originally Posted by 6.5 shooter

Motorcycle weather here...couple days of rain but that is it, pretty dry summer.

My wife was smart enough to decide that we were going to southern Alberta for vacation this past July. We spent a few days at Elkwater Lake, a couple of days in Medicine Hat and a few days in Drumheller. Other than one rainy day in Drumheller, the weather was excellent.

[6.5 shooter]

Originally Posted by brslk

My wife was smart enough to decide that we were going to southern Alberta for vacation this past July. We spent a few days at Elkwater Lake, a couple of days in Medicine Hat and a few days in Drumheller. Other than one rainy day in Drumheller, the weather was excellent.

Glad you enjoyed your visit .... Winters are pretty mild as well..Med Hat seems to have it's own climate bubble...like Red Deer...but with nice weather

[brslk]

Originally Posted by 6.5 shooter

Glad you enjoyed your visit .... Winters are pretty mild as well..Med Hat seems to have it's own climate bubble...like Red Deer...but with nice weather

Thanks. The dry hot weather is great for my arthritis.

[Bonescreek]

It's good to hear that most have had an ok to good year up there.

I forgot to mention that back in mid July, we had storms come around
every afternoon, with only lightning no rain. On an on just about every day.

One day a guy pulls in the driveway jumps out the car and says "where's the
fire ?"

I was sitting on the front poarch with my wife and just looked at each other
in dissbelife, then the man say "check it out' pointing to the eastern horizon.

A billowing plum of smoke was just bearly noticable but there it was.

Lightning had struck in the 200 acres of clear cut pine just east of our house,
we never heard or saw a thing at the time 4:30 pm.

No rain not a drop.

Yea I called in the fire dept. yea they brought in trucks and men and dozers and stayed up all night to contain it.

They managed a fire brake about circling 35 to 40 acres that night.

Wind picked up the next day had to call (911) get them back the fire jummped
the break. Fire trucks, tank trucks, men, dozers and it's 4:30 next afternoon
and here comes the storms, lightning and no rain, and all that metel and people spread upon the hillside.

Hearing the thunder and seeing the black clouds comin' in I went on down
over the hill to let them a storms coming.

They all bailed out.

Me and my wife had to keep watch on the fire break for next week alone.
This went on for 3 more days.

Finnally we got some rain 2 weeks later or so, mean time those old pine
stumps just kept on smolderin' waiting for a wind.