blizzard

[grassfarmer]

So how does "barn calving" go when you can't get to the barn, LOL.

[ajl]

Well Grass you just learned why friends don't let friends move to Manitoba. You can keep that kind of snow there.

[grassfarmer]

This winter has been an anomaly by all accounts. Normally doesn't get anywhere like the snow here compared to the high snowfall area of AB I was in. When did you last see this much snow Braveheart? The seventies?

[stonepicker]

I may be wrong but i think we had snow like this in 96? Also 2011 i think, big snowdrifts on yard even on april 14, a moose stayed on my yard the whole day that day, snow was deep everywhere.

[Braveheart]

Well , in 2011 (I think) there was huge snowfall. Was stuck going out to the cows many times. There really is no normal. I think variable is normal.

[sumdumguy]

We have seen some hum-dingers. In about 1965, 33 Highway was closed for days with snow banks over 7 feet. Power was out for days - the power line was down for miles. in 2011, I think April 3 or so eastern Saskatchewan experienced heavy wet snow storm that destroyed thousands of calves, heifers etc. I am always surprised if we get away without at least one good blast before spring.

[Generation 5]

had to dig into a pen of yearlings

[Generation 5]

couple more pics on top of ten foot drift

[Guest]

-37 here this morning , coldest day of the winter so far, not hearing a peep outta global warming cult

[furrowtickler]

They are digging out the solar panels from the 10 ft drifts

[grassfarmer]

-37 here this morning , coldest day of the winter so far, not hearing a peep outta global warming cult

Why would you expect to? Surely not a remarkable temperature for the prairies in March? Even if it were it wouldn't indicate that climate change models showing the world is warming are wrong.

...besides the global warming experts are all recovering from sore faces as a result of much face-palming yesterday after the US EPA chief (Pruitt) claimed that C02 wasn't a major contributor to global warming. Not that he chose to deny climate change on this occasion - nor that human activity was impacting that change but rather that C02 wasn't the change agent.

[furrowtickler]

[farmaholic]

Snow banks here are hard and hard to move. Could have been alot worse. Not much new snow with and ahead of the big wind and the snow that was left from the warm spell before the blizzard couldn't be moved by the wind.

[seldomseen]

Why would you expect to? Surely not a remarkable temperature for the prairies in March? Even if it were it wouldn't indicate that climate change models showing the world is warming are wrong.

...besides the global warming experts are all recovering from sore faces as a result of much face-palming yesterday after the US EPA chief (Pruitt) claimed that C02 wasn't a major contributor to global warming. Not that he chose to deny climate change on this occasion - nor that human activity was impacting that change but rather that C02 wasn't the change agent.

-37 was a record low and the remarkable thing is the media never mentioned it once. If it was a record high temperature they would have went on and on!

[Guest]

Why would you expect to? Surely not a remarkable temperature for the prairies in March? Even if it were it wouldn't indicate that climate change models showing the world is warming are wrong.

...besides the global warming experts are all recovering from sore faces as a result of much face-palming yesterday after the US EPA chief (Pruitt) claimed that C02 wasn't a major contributor to global warming. Not that he chose to deny climate change on this occasion - nor that human activity was impacting that change but rather that C02 wasn't the change agent.

nor is +7 a remarkable temp for the prairies for March , but get three days of that and listen to the cult fire up
I've been around here a long time and I don't remember a -37 on the tenth of March