Rain Totals some are good some are ok and some WTF Piss all.

[Sodbuster]

Skiff of snow here yesterday, enough to wet the ground, 30 to 40mm forecast for Sunday-Monday, could be a game changer and would us set up nicely for herbicides season and hopefully get us past flea beetle season. I’m hoping the frost the last 3 days and tonight doesn’t kill or delay our canola too much.

[agstar77]

20 mm here , will germinate everything. Still moisture deficit in subsoil. Only rain this sprig.

[checking]

It's variable over a seven mile stretch, but 2" is in the ballpark. Even better is that it has and will not freeze from this event, which leads me back to c.c. Did it freeze at your farm during this event?

No, that is not why I am asking, because, as you state, there are 38 factors as to why climate is the way climate is. A good scientist will give equal time to each of these factors to give a global overview of which is the most important to least important, even for a Canadian prairie view. The compassionate scientist, however, could cut to the chase, and inform us that the #1 factor is the human activity one. (which it always ends up being). So what do we do with humans? Well, your scientists hit upon it in both numbered parcels. It's adaptation.

Those scientists weren't afraid to highlight adaptation. Are you up to the task? It will be the most comfortable solution for you, and remember, you can't look after anyone else, unless you take care of yourself first.

A neighbour has a quarter of grass land. It's fenced, and he wants to let his relative run 40 head on it. He has a deep well for his house and a dugout for the pasture. The dugout is empty. The deep well can't keep up to both the household use, and the cattle. This is an analogy, all related to what was said above, but what do you think his solution will be? What do you think I suggested, and better yet, what would you suggest is his solution. We may all be gob smacked at what may be no more than one of the 38 factors he wasn't even concerned about.

[seldomseen]

We ended up with .4 tenths. Perfect and could go a good stretch now with sunshine. More rain in the forecast for Sunday and Monday that I really hope misses us and rains out west where it is needed.
As for Chuck asking if we are prepared for extreme weather due to climate change?
No I am not worried about that at all. If anything the weather is getting more stable and moderate compared to when I was young. The media hype is the only thing that is changing.
This last snow event my phone lights right up with heavy snow fall warming!
All that for a 3-4 inches snowfall over about 7-8 hours.

[Guest]

Zero rain in this entire area

strange , chuck was lucky , as he is close to you

[furrowtickler]

strange , chuck was lucky , as he is close to you

Lol there was zero rain anywhere within 50 miles or more .

[seldomseen]

strange , chuck was lucky , as he is close to you

Think Chuck is from Pelly

[Guest]

Lol there was zero rain anywhere within 50 miles or more .

Yea Cochin got none sister in law said
Musta been a small pocket

[TSIPP]

Almost an inch and a half, 45 miles south west of Regina, the native prairie is full of brown and green stripes, green is from the 6 foot high snow banks we got in mid April.

[Jay-mo]

2.8" in the last 36 hours, although 2" of that came in a hurry last night. First real rain of the year.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Yea Cochin got none sister in law said
Musta been a small pocket

Really small, I'm guessing it didn't extend past the basement where his carpet farm is located. Likely a burst pipe.

[FarmJunkie]

Rains all the time on Simfarm

[SASKFARMER]

So chuck if you got two inches I can pinpoint you farm near or around Melville Saskatchewan is that Correct?

[Hamloc]

So you think you and your farm are bullet proof and climate change will only benefit you? Read on and good luck with that. How many farms have seen several extreme weather events in the last 20 years that have impacted their crop and livestock production.

https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/nrcan/files/earthsciences/Prairie%20Provinces%20Chapter%20%E2%80%93%20Region al%20Perspectives%20Report.pdf https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/sites/nrcan/files/earthsciences/Prairie%20Provinces%20Chapter%20%E2%80%93%20Region al%20Perspectives%20Report.pdf

Lead authors: David Sauchyn, PhD, Director, Prairie Adaptation Research Collaborative and Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of ReginaDebra Davidson, PhD, Professor, Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology, University of AlbertaMark Johnston, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Environment Division, Saskatchewan Research Council

4.3 Floods, drought and wildfires are getting worse Extreme weather events of amplified severity will likely be the most challenging consequence of climate change in the Prairie Provinces. The impacts of flooding, drought and wildfire in recent years are unprecedented, and climate models suggest an increased risk of these events in the future. Provincial and municipal governments have responded by proposing policies, structures and practices to reduce the impacts of future extreme weather events.Recent extreme weather events in the Prairie provinces―including flooding, drought and wildfire―have been the costliest natural disasters in Canadian history. This includes record dry months and historically high water levels. An increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events will be superimposed upon a more gradual change in average conditions, requiring adaptation to prepare for a wider range of weather conditions and to shifts in the distribution of water resources. Ultimately, water shortages would be the most damaging, resulting in social and environmental impacts, along with economic losses from lost productivity in the agriculture, forestry, energy and mining sectors (i.e., extraction of oil sands and solution potash mining).

4.9 Conclusion In the Prairie provinces, climate change is resulting in a redistribution of natural capital. It is transforming the seasons towards wetter winters and drier summers, and requiring changes to water resource management. The transition to a new distribution of water supplies and new regional ecosystems will be punctuated by phases of change as global warming interacts with regional variability and weather events. Collaboration among governments, municipalities and Indigenous communities is required to deal with the geographic shifts in the availability of water and ecological resources.As climate change alters the frequency and intensity of extreme weather, the longer-term risks posed by climate change will include an amplified range of water levels and associated consequences: flooding, fire, water supply deficits, disturbance to ecosystems, and more variable forest and farm productivity. The increasing intensity of weather events represents an expanding deviation from a baseline climate, recognizing that the baseline, meanwhile, is also shifting. This ongoing state of change may ultimately be the most challenging scenario. Eventually temperature, precipitation and water levels will cross a threshold beyond which impacts will abruptly become more severe. Examples include the permanent loss of water stored as snow and ice, rainfall intensity that exceeds the watershed and storage capacity of infrastructure, and the loss of low temperatures that inhibit many pest and disease vectors from proliferating in agricultural and forested regions. The response to climate change in the Prairie provinces has transitioned from recognizing to responding to potential impacts. Government agencies, private industry, Indigenous communities, municipalities and regional community organizations (e.g., watershed stewardship agencies, irrigation districts) are now engaged in resilience and adaptation planning. The net impacts of regional climate change will depend on the success, extent and scope of adaptation planning and its effective implementation. Plans have emerged in the past decade, and adaptation planning is on the agenda of many municipalities, corporations, industry associations and civic organizations. Each of the provincial governments in the Prairies has a climate strategy that incorporates adaptation, and most of the major cities are engaged in resilience planning, although implementation is in the early stages

Question Chuck2, if climate changes as you envision it and does cause more extreme rain events which increases flooding problems in urban environments, and the government has responded by investing in electric car subsidies, electric car charging stations and public transit. Has the government spent the money where it is needed? Wouldn’t adaptation involve money spent on flood mitigation?! Will electric cars float?

[furrowtickler]

Question Chuck2, if climate changes as you envision it and does cause more extreme rain events which increases flooding problems in urban environments, and the government has responded by investing in electric car subsidies, electric car charging stations and public transit. Has the government spent the money where it is needed? Wouldn’t adaptation involve money spent on flood mitigation?! Will electric cars float?

Trudeau more worried about throwing billions away to buy a seat on the UN ...... oh wait .....