Weather

[cottonpicken]

This is pretty cool,needs more canadian volunteers.

http://www.cocorahs.org/

[oneoff]

There's a 5 part tutorial on weather.com that comments on the extended mid west drought; and what it will take to overcome the situation..

It concludes that hurricanes influence a relatively small area of the mid-west as drought buster.
It could takes years of a weather pattern/jet stream shift to overcome the drought deficit.

And as cotton's link above shows; that weather front last night basically didn't give more than dust settling to any but the smallest part of the US drought affected area.

Go anytime to the US agtalk site and you can read upwards of dozens upon dozens of rainfall reports that have made exactly the same point.

And yet the trade would have us believe there were "beneficial rains". The important point is if they covered a substancial area and did more good than harm..
Seldom is that taken into consideration.

[oneoff]

There's also the weatherfarm networks. Take your pick of free access through the CWB, APAS, Canola Council and probably lots more. They have wind speeds, direction, high and low temps, archives for 120 days, graphing historical data etc. etc.
Pretty impressive,and covers prairies as well as into the USA.