Runoff resumes!

[freewheat]

Well, finally a pretty nice day. Sunny, breezy. Plus 8. Snow going fast. Runoff had started twice before, but we have had cold snaps slow it to a trickle. May be a good thing it never all ran at once. Froze up running, and now it looks more like normal.

Can't do too much, pretty soft, but it is nice to see the sun, and to see the snow actually going. A real racket out there with the various geese, blackbirds, cranes, robins, etc. finally appearing in force.

Dangit I like this time of year!

[pourfarmer]

No magpies over there in gods country?

[freewheat]

No magpies over there in gods country?

Magpies don't migrate, but yes, until I kill them, we have magpies. lol

[farmaholic]

There was no run off here. Hoping to catch a quarter to half inch here with the "passing" system that is supposed to hit the SE corner of Sask and SW Manitoba.... "passing" is the key word .....like most rain last year.

[Partners]

If we could we would gladly share some with you..1/2 inch of rain yesterday..Still a pile of snow in our yard..

[farmaholic]

Was out playing with equipment today....calibrating effin autosteer. I could drive through "just about" any spot I wanted to... even spots that normally have water, have little to no water in them. If it was later we'd definitely have to be thinking about starting. Last year's frosted canola is still fresh in my memory... it's only mid April in SE Sask!!!

[Guest]

today you could drive a boat on a lot of quarters , lots of water moving after big rain all day yesterday

[fjlip]

Ridiculous extremes in Sk...Wadena to Humboldt along #5...water even on hills! Looks like a lot of rain on FROZEN soil, no soaking yet. Most of it pouring into Quill Lake.
Up to 2" Estevan Weyburn forecast...drought will be over there.

[furrowtickler]

FJ - your not the only place on earth with extrem conditions with a 20 mile area - come for a beer ..

[HappyFarmer]

Hearing of some guys doing some spring trashing. Flax and canola. One guys said he was hauling his canola into the elevator. Yield was of course down a bit but was yielding better than expected.

[farmaholic]

So far this rain event has been quite uneventful!!! wiseguy, it could be a lot worse here. I'm hoping that there is enough to get the crop started and that those hot dry ****ing winds stay away. Those just add insult to injury. Amazing how things can go from (barely) adequate to too dry after a week of high winds and low humidity combined. Too bad we couldn't swap weather conditions sometimes.

Has as much fallen in SW Manitoba as they were "forecasting"?

[fjlip]

FJ - your not the only place on earth with extrem conditions with a 20 mile area - come for a beer ..

Seems like every creek/river, lake, rise of land, bush acres makes a change in the weather patterns UP in the sky. Hard to grasp. I know that ice block in HB is major influence to NE corner.

[Klause]

fjlip, around here (Gregor, to Muenster, along #5) we are actually seeing less water than usual. Way less.


Culverts that held back flow most years never even ran full this year...


Good thing too, our soil is soaked.

[grassfarmer]

Has as much fallen in SW Manitoba as they were "forecasting"?

Half an inch at my place. Calling for another inch of precipitation tomorrow - in the form of snow. I'll take it gladly.

[DaneG]

We were on the north edge about 2 hrs of flurries then it quit fairly windy now we didn't need any more, heard on the radio that the roads north and west of Dauphin were slick. More people there to enjoy it.