Is it actually warm and melting somewhere?

[freewheat]

Grassfarmer. I swear we are in a micro-climate of cool and wet, within a bigger region of cool and wet. Literally 10 miles makes a really big impact on the climate here. Ten miles west, and ten miles north, it is completely different, (dryer, warmer), than it is right around our farm. And if you go east, it is like us, but then you get past Preeceville, to Norquay/Kamsack etc. and again, they are warmer and dryer than us. Our pocket I would say is about 20 miles from south to north, and about 30 miles from west to east. We are right in the middle.

I talked on another thread about the Quill Lake effect. I believe we get our own little climate from "lake effect", and also because where we are, the land rises up 50 to 100 feet above the pothole country to our west and south slightly.

Thanks for the encouragement about weather for animal production. We sure do grow good grass/hay, and 30 C is very rare anymore in summer. Which makes it hard to hay!

[grassfarmer]

That does sound like here freewheat. Got a booklet from AB Crop insurance recently with the map of the province showing various weather patterns from last year - temperature in April, in June, precip in June, August etc and in every one our valley is a perfect bullseye maybe 20 miles across - always the coldest, then the driest. A couple of years ago it was one of the predicted high grasshopper populations in an area where grasshoppers aren't usually an issue. It was remarkable to see it shown so clearly on a provincial map.

[freewheat]

Today's high. Plus 8. Current temp. Plus 2. Sun is gone. Clouding over. Grrrrrrr!