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[TOM4CWB]

Little dramatic there Tom. First September 23 to December 6 is not 6 months (the time when Carvel cannot provide any service). (math is hard for some I guess) Second, Edmonton region has not been left without any coverage as you claim (Strathmore, Spirit River, and Radisson radars have all had range extended to 400 kms providing basic radar service to Edmonton area. Third, all 31 enviornment Canada weather radar sites are getting upgraded. Edmonton is the 21 station to get the upgrade with doubles the current range of coverage providing even better service to rural areas outside Edmonton. Funny you are not complaining about rural Alberta being so far down the list. Fourth, these major upgrades are done in the fall when the risk of extreme weather is the lowest during the construction period when new towers have to be built. And you really believe that the Edmonton airport is at risk of this and they have no additional storm detection. Every modern commercial aircraft will have short range weather radar. The only kick in the head is what you are doing in complaining about something you did not even know was happening. Maybe next time check enviornment Canada radar outage before spouting off.

Not funny at all, as our Shop blew down on Oct 17 and trains were blown off railway tracks in that storm.

My brother knows a NavCanada meteorologist who says they will have Carvel up and running by the end of September… NOT December…

Captain Kirk to Scotty;

What Scotty how long to fix the engines… 2 months you say Scotty? Have them ready in 8 hours…

A Miracle in the works so they appear to be geniuses?

Apparently these guys have done numerous Doppler changeovers already in about a month…

Cheers

[AlbertaFarmer5]

dml, I see you have your BS detector working overtime to prove someone wrong about downtime on radar. But so far, not a peep about the proven false news that Chuck is perpetuating about Ivermectin.

[dmlfarmer]

dml, I see you have your BS detector working overtime to prove someone wrong about downtime on radar. But so far, not a peep about the proven false news that Chuck is perpetuating about Ivermectin.

I could ask you the same question about why you do not respond to a lot of the antivaxers on this site when they spew BS,

I respond when someone is clearly trying to mislead readers as Tom was this morning, first insinuating a radar misfunction, and then claiming it would be down for 6 months even though the radar outage site of enviornment Canada shows it down from Sept 23 to December 6, and when confronted with that responds that someone a relative of his says it will be back up by the end of September so if he knew that already how did he come up with 6 months in the first place - other than to throw "gravel" at enviornment Canada.

I have no intention on picking sides in your love spat with Chuck. Deal with your own issues yourself.

[helmsdale]

As an aside to the carvel update, this has happened at all the other locations that have been updated as well... We were left with early 2000's style coverage when XBU (Schuler) went down. Medicine hat and south were covered by US doppler, but a significant stretch up the sk/ab border to about provost was left with nothing.

We survived.

That aside, I know that Env. Can. put a X-band short range radar in place when they took Strathmore down, you'd think that they could have trucked it up the road to edmonton?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I could ask you the same question about why you do not respond to a lot of the antivaxers on this site when they spew BS,

I respond when someone is clearly trying to mislead readers as Tom was this morning, first insinuating a radar misfunction, and then claiming it would be down for 6 months even though the radar outage site of enviornment Canada shows it down from Sept 23 to December 6, and when confronted with that responds that someone a relative of his says it will be back up by the end of September so if he knew that already how did he come up with 6 months in the first place - other than to throw "gravel" at enviornment Canada.

I have no intention on picking sides in your love spat with Chuck. Deal with your own issues yourself.

Thanks for clarifying that. I mistakenly thought that you were only calling out fake news when it went against your political persuasions.
Now we know better.

But didn't you already pick sides by not responding after declaring yourself the police of fake news?

[Taiga]

Hard to believe any real farmer would justify and make excuses for the govt having a weather radar down, for any amount of time.

Also, I see Oneoff has completely lost his mind and turned full Liberal zombie today.

[SASKFARMER]

Oh one-off did I hit a nerve I never knew you are a chucky crazy

[dmlfarmer]

Thanks for clarifying that. I mistakenly thought that you were only calling out fake news when it went against your political persuasions.
Now we know better.

But didn't you already pick sides by not responding after declaring yourself the police of fake news?

Never declared myself anything. Those are your words not mine.

[TOM4CWB]

Never declared myself anything. Those are your words not mine.

DML,

One of my many risk management responsibilities is to monitor the storms that occur over our farm for hail. This affects my commodity hedge program umongst many other management responsibilities. Since our grain farm is spread out over 120 miles, tracking the storms is important for rain/crop and hail insurance which we have on theses thousands of acres of grain crops worth millions of $ of insurance coverage. Planning our truck dispatching hauling grain also involves weather tracking and storm monitoring for road safety of our grain trucks and workers on Alberta roads.

I talked to my brother [whom we farm with] part f our family farm; to monitor storms daily, and yesterday commented how annoyed I was that we had been told by CBC that until Dec 6 no storm tracking. My brother is a pilot and A NavCanada Meteorologist keeps his horse at our Sherwood Park farm, who has explained that the Carvel Dopler radar should have been done being modified by the end of Sept. Nav Canada is responsible for aircraft weather forcasting for flight plans. Obviously this is of LIFE AND DEATH to pilots especially for pilots of small aircraft which far too many DIE each year, in case you missed the news reports that report the storms and aircraft crashes that are normally the cause of small aircraft fatal crashes.

So obviously since this IS life and DEATH to my family and friends, No, No, No... I am not being overdramatic. My cousin lost his farm manager a couple of years ago from just such an aircraft fatal crash incident.

For spraying, harvest planning, moisture tracking of precipitation over our grain land; I need to know what is going on to plan our farm work without going to each one of our dozens of fields each day and physically checking for rainfall and for hail damage from storms, which until recently I have been able to monitor on my computer.

Think. Please. knowing what is going on with the weather on our many farms [in the Edm region] is our responsibility legally; for our millions of $'s of insurance policies just for our farm. It does matter. Have a safe prosperous harvest!

Cheers

[TOM4CWB]

DML,

One of my many risk management responsibilities is to monitor the storms that occur over our farm for hail. This affects my commodity hedge program umongst many other management responsibilities. Since our grain farm is spread out over 120 miles, tracking the storms is important for rain/crop and hail insurance which we have on theses thousands of acres of grain crops worth millions of $ of insurance coverage. Planning our truck dispatching hauling grain also involves weather tracking and storm monitoring for road safety of our grain trucks and workers on Alberta roads.

I talked to my brother [whom we farm with] part f our family farm; to monitor storms daily, and yesterday commented how annoyed I was that we had been told by CBC that until Dec 6 no storm tracking. My brother is a pilot and A NavCanada Meteorologist keeps his horse at our Sherwood Park farm, who has explained that the Carvel Dopler radar should have been done being modified by the end of Sept. Nav Canada is responsible for aircraft weather forcasting for flight plans. Obviously this is of LIFE AND DEATH to pilots especially for pilots of small aircraft which far too many DIE each year, in case you missed the news reports that report the storms and aircraft crashes that are normally the cause of small aircraft fatal crashes.

So obviously since this IS life and DEATH to my family and friends, No, No, No... I am not being overdramatic. My cousin lost his farm manager a couple of years ago from just such an aircraft fatal crash incident.

For spraying, harvest planning, moisture tracking of precipitation over our grain land; I need to know what is going on to plan our farm work without going to each one of our dozens of fields each day and physically checking for rainfall and for hail damage from storms, which until recently I have been able to monitor on my computer.

Think. Please. knowing what is going on with the weather on our many farms [in the Edm region] is our responsibility legally; for our millions of $'s of insurance policies just for our farm. It does matter. Have a safe prosperous harvest!

Cheers

BTW, it is raining AGAIN!!!

Should help cure out the Canola!

Amazing to see all the wheat and barley harvested over the past week, only Canola left around here now to harvest!!!!

Cheers

[Guest]

The NE ex swamp is pretty well wrapped up

[TOM4CWB]

The NE ex swamp is pretty well wrapped up

Plenty of green growth [mostly volunteer Canola just starting to bloom] coming in many fields now; Winter cereals being planted much more than usual now soil moisture is better... some very nice looking winter wheat has emerged on 2021 pea fields...

Kansas is dry so talk of La Nina causing drought on winter wheat... WASDE had little effect... China reports they have plenty of Soybeans in store... Biden seems to want to kill biofuels... EV by 2030... which will not work effectively for Trains, ships, aircraft, big transport long haul trucks.. Need NH3 fuel source for Ships and trains if 0 carbon fuels are to be practical...

Cheers