As I entered the faint hope stage of this exceedingly dry crop year, I started checking every weather source I could find trying to find one which would promise me something wet falling from the sky.
-Environment Canada was most generous in their precipitation probabilities and quantities(when provided) and by far the most disappointing every single time. They had full blown rain forecast many times, which never materialized, at least not here.
-Weather Networks was much more realistic in their probabilities, but still overshot the quantities every time.
-yr.no was absolutely depressing to look at. They contradicted Enviro Canada's optimism every time. Nothing but 0mm's or fractions of an mm all summer, and they were deadly accurate.
-Accuweather often had substantial accumulations so far off in the forecast that it was laughable, but on shorter time frames, they weren't much worse than Weather Network.
-Drew Lerner was almost as depressing as yr.no, and never overpromised by much, or with much certainty, but did regularly state that closer to the rocky's would have higher probabilities or accumulations, which was never the case here.
Now, yr.no has us receiving 3 inches of rain this weekend, while the the other forecasts have chances of showers, will see how well their track record holds up. It would be ironic to finally get the million dollar rain a day after 38 degrees destroys any chance of it doing any good. Although the pastures and hay would be extremely grateful.
Which service has been most accurate elsewhere, what else am I missing? How did the pig spleen prognostication turn out? Has anyone's Rheumatism been accurate this year?
This is an unusual problem to have around here, normally we are cursing mother nature to stop drowning the crops and washing the hay. This year, my rainy day projects have been on hold all spring and summer.
-Environment Canada was most generous in their precipitation probabilities and quantities(when provided) and by far the most disappointing every single time. They had full blown rain forecast many times, which never materialized, at least not here.
-Weather Networks was much more realistic in their probabilities, but still overshot the quantities every time.
-yr.no was absolutely depressing to look at. They contradicted Enviro Canada's optimism every time. Nothing but 0mm's or fractions of an mm all summer, and they were deadly accurate.
-Accuweather often had substantial accumulations so far off in the forecast that it was laughable, but on shorter time frames, they weren't much worse than Weather Network.
-Drew Lerner was almost as depressing as yr.no, and never overpromised by much, or with much certainty, but did regularly state that closer to the rocky's would have higher probabilities or accumulations, which was never the case here.
Now, yr.no has us receiving 3 inches of rain this weekend, while the the other forecasts have chances of showers, will see how well their track record holds up. It would be ironic to finally get the million dollar rain a day after 38 degrees destroys any chance of it doing any good. Although the pastures and hay would be extremely grateful.
Which service has been most accurate elsewhere, what else am I missing? How did the pig spleen prognostication turn out? Has anyone's Rheumatism been accurate this year?
This is an unusual problem to have around here, normally we are cursing mother nature to stop drowning the crops and washing the hay. This year, my rainy day projects have been on hold all spring and summer.
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