Anyone else getting concerned about a late start to spring?

[TASFarms]

https://solarcycle25com.proboards.com/thread/54/astromet-nina-forecast-2021-2022

Winter ends May 5th ?

[beaverdam]

Nope. It’s only March! We have next to no snow here. World was brown before last Thursday.

It can snow from now until April 24 and then warm up.

People have been mislead with the last few years letting them get the drills into the field the first half of April around here. This year I would happily sacrifice that for some moisture. Getting into the fields in April isn’t going to matter when not much is going to grow anyway.

Snow snow snow!

Well I'm speaking to my area about conditions and normal spring melt and planting dates.

Of course if you have a skiff or no snow at all, then sure, a week or two is all you need.

If everything is white, and you have this much to melt, it takes time to melt, and more time to dry up, and that's provided you don't get more snow in the mean time, where the days pass while you melt again and dry up again,,, all over again.

Perhaps I should have also mentioned a 14 day forecast of below temps, with only Sunday reaching normal.(not unexpected when everything is white, and the sun can't catch grass, or stubble, or black dirt)

[furrowtickler]

Over 3 ft on the level just 30 miles north of here .
Hey 16 seems to be the line , but that’s more normal than not .

[WiltonRanch]

Over 3 ft on the level just 30 miles north of here .
Hey 16 seems to be the line , but that’s more normal than not .

Further north of 16 snow gets heavier. Quite a lot more north of the river. I was out pushing off hillsides on the calving ground. South facing hills have 3’. Hilltops you see stubble. Markedly less snow around lloydminster and decreasing amounts further south you go. The northern areas have typically lighter soils and were dried out worse than we were so if that extra snow can soak in will be good.

[shtferbrains]

Traveling from Saskatoon north to Prince Albert the heavy snow starts about the same place the crop was better last year.