I always enjoy the annual news report on CFCN on the Victoria Day weekend when they go to Kananaskis and interview the bewildered campers who don't understand how they got snowed on. IT HAPPENS ALMOST EVERY YEAR!!! The only ones surprised by it are you.
Haha I hear ya. Got fooled by it once back in the 90's, never again. I have friends that go almost every year, and they usually get snowed on. They always ask me to go and I always laugh and say no. How they never figure it out is beyond me.
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Last year at this time all the snow had melted. It started out as an early spring then we got the usual dumps of snow in April and May. It was a god send for farmers as it was looking to be the dryest year in history in parts of the province.
Now, this spring is looking like the opposite. It could be the wettest spring in history. Meteorologists are telling farmers to get their crops in at every opportunity they have. Forecast is for below average temperatures and above average precipitation. Not good considering the amount of snow around.
Last year at this time all the snow had melted. It started out as an early spring then we got the usual dumps of snow in April and May. It was a god send for farmers as it was looking to be the dryest year in history in parts of the province.
Now, this spring is looking like the opposite. It could be the wettest spring in history. Meteorologists are telling farmers to get their crops in at every opportunity they have. Forecast is for below average temperatures and above average precipitation. Not good considering the amount of snow around.
Wow that's a lot different than they're predicting here in Edmonton this year. Just checked the Farmer's Almanac yesterday (which is usually eerily accurate), and they're calling for a dry, colder than normal spring and dry, colder than normal summer (with a hot spot in late July), followed by a warmer than usual Sept/Oct (who cares).
I was surprised to hear how dry it was supposed to be here, considering how much precipitation we've had the past calendar year. Weird what a difference it makes being in the open prairies compared to the foothills (either that or the Farmer's Almanac is OTL this year).
Wow that's a lot different than they're predicting here in Edmonton this year. Just checked the Farmer's Almanac yesterday (which is usually eerily accurate), and they're calling for a dry, colder than normal spring and dry, colder than normal summer (with a hot spot in late July), followed by a warmer than usual Sept/Oct (who cares).
I was surprised to hear how dry it was supposed to be here, considering how much precipitation we've had the past calendar year. Weird what a difference it makes being in the open prairies compared to the foothills (either that or the Farmer's Almanac is OTL this year).
In its bicentennial edition, the Almanac stated, "neither we nor anyone else has as yet gained sufficient insight into the mysteries of the universe to predict weather with anything resembling total accuracy."[1] The Almanac claims that its long-range weather forecasts are 80% accurate.[27] One disputing analysis concluded that these forecasts are at most 2% more accurate than random guesses.[28] Pennsylvania State University meteorologist Paul Knight notes that the Almanac's forecasts are so vague that it is difficult to assess whether they are accurate or not.
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Interesting, hopefully they're right. I'm sick & tired of these below average summers we've gotten the past few years. It's pathetic. It seems we get a month of summer, 2 months of winter, and the rest is just fall conditions. I swear it wasn't like this when I was growing up.
As for those things, all I know is my dad's a golf course superintendent and he's sworn by those things for as long as I can remember, and he's usually creepily right. When I was a kid I thought he was some kind of super forecaster until I figured out his secret. I still remember back in December '05 when he said we were gonna get absolutely dumped on, on March 17, 2006. It came a day later than predicted, but boy did it ever come, think it snowed almost 30cm that day. I was blown away how accurate he (it) was considering it was predicted 3 months earlier. I just don't get how that stuff works.
My favorite are the pseudo campers who get nailed with a snowfall on may long and act angry/confused about this perennial phenomenon. In fact book it for a thread!
As long as the roads are ok and it isn't -20 I don't care that much.
The last 2 weeks have been fine by me. Since the daytime highs are in the positive the roads have been pretty good and the moron over-conservative drivers haven't been too bad.
