Temperatures?

[Sheepwheat]

As the years go by and I watch discussion on agriville, it confirms how much of an anomaly our little pocket is. Our forecast highs have been short by piles. Warmest day was yesterday, it hit plus two. High was supposed to be 8. An hour and a half south, sf basked in plus ten.Maybe it’s the snowcover? I did find a bare patch about the size of a small bedroom on the home quarter when I was shed hunting yesterday, so there is hope I guess. Treelines and edges of bush have six plus foot drifts. Generally a foot or so of snow cover on the open fields, not fun when you step off the deer trails.

It’s just crazy. Every year the same thing, epochs of time behind places even a few miles away.

Why is it? More trees? Quill lakes effect? Slight elevation change? Forest effect? Maybe all those things combined? Always colder, always wetter.

Just curious. Do any of you live in a zone that could well be on another planet year after year? I mean this area is literally just a dozen or two square miles. Makes Carrot River and Hudson Bay look tropical, even though we are far south of them.

I just find it interesting. And I wish I knew the why. I did observe in a new way how much trees knock the wind down, and for longer distances than I assumed. A whole story on its own, but it was startling. It causes me to lean towards some sort of tree effect?

[seldomseen]

Trees usually make it warmer in the spring. You can see colder temps north of Nipawin most of the year but in the spring when the sun has heat the darker color of the evergreen's forest just North of the farmland sucks up heat and their temps will rise above ours.

[Blaithin]

If you’re close to lakes then they’ll have an impact. Stay cooler longer in spring, stay warmer longer in fall. Takes a bit for the water to warm up and a bit for the water to cool down.

Here it’s the Chinook that’s the divider. Far enough east we don’t get the rain of the foothills, right on the edge of Chinook land that snow melt can be hard to keep, not quite across the river into no rain land.

The temps this month are ridiculous. Snow is gone, feels like May. Two months before we should see anything start to really grow but feels like it should be today. Makes one wonder what it’s going to do this year....

[jazz]

Think about what Canada experiences sheep. You have predominant chinook winds on the rockies down slope combined with a dryline that cuts through the SW of Sask and 100th meridian effects into MB with northern latitudes feeling arctic effects through out the season all driven by el nino and la nina.

Its no wonder there are micro climates that develop in certain places. There is no place on this planet that experiences that much geographic influenced weather variation. We often have winds that vary by 20km an hour just 30 minutes away from our farm. MJ is only 40 minutes away and its usually 5 deg warmer.

This is the epicenter for climate change before it was ever a thing.

[seldomseen]

Load the Ventusky page. You can see where the warm air is or cold air and can also watch the way the wind is blowing.
Right now if I go north of my farm it gets warmer and if I go south the temps don't change much until you get south of Quill Lake.

[SASKFARMER]

We didn’t get as warm as they said yesterday at the farm it was nice and water was running.
Headed home to Regina and once I crossed the valley temps started to climb in Regina warmer but no snow.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Very noticable micro climates here. Our home is typically the last place to lose snow in the spring, compared to only a couple miles west/sw of here on the "flat" lower and flat and sitting on gravel which will be bared off a week before. Or any point south of here, which is higher and sandier will also be melted way sooner. Leaves come sooner everywhere else but here. No big elevation changes, just a consistent slope away from the mountains.

The flip side is that we stay green longer than anywhere in the fall. Grass keeps growing much longer.

I have another half section starting 1 mile north of home, but mostly lower elevation, and on the other side of a narrow muskeg, and it is much colder, still way more snow there at this time of year. One fall I had a strip of crop left there when we got snowed out. Finished the rest of the farm after the snow melted, but that never did melt enough to harvest.

[furrowtickler]

Warm enough to get the thieves active again around here .
Just about got one a noon today at the neighbours yard . Missed him by 30 sec
Hopefully the RCMP get him , I nearly got run over but got pictures of truck at least
Missed license plate , but I doubt it was registered anyway .
Neighbourhood been busy this last week .

[furrowtickler]

One good thing about 30 below, no thieves.

[fjlip]

Sheep S of us the Hendon grid is a cut off, 90% of time drier. N of us the Barrier River make a cut off for rain/snow. Yes the QL are a change maker. Last few years, 5 miles N been wetter, more T storms. Probably more bushels too.