Hail / heavy rains

[furrowtickler]

Hopefully most missed the hail from the big storms yesterday across northern and eastern Sask .
Most looked like along hiway 3 in the north , east of hiway 12 and SE through the Big Quill area
Some looked very nasty on radar
We had one very small cell in area that dropped an inch of rain and some small hail in a very narrow strip and disappeared quickly

[blueversi]

Only half inch at my place but heard up to 3 inches in 5 minutes to the north and lots of flat crop. Hail somewhere because it cooled off fast around 4 o’clock.

[Sheepwheat]

See post in Friday crop report. It was some kind of vicious, extremely wide wind.

[Partners]

Many flooded basements in Humboldt again.
Crops flat..
Fun harvest is gone..

[AlbertaFarmer5]

The long-term forecasts may not be very useful for the most part. But I do recall someone forecasting a lot of thunderstorms and hail storms for this summer, and they were most definitely correct. Some areas east of me how now being hit three times by devastating halestorms. Hill planes flying over here almost daily. Thunderstorm warnings almost daily. We are situated right at the West end of Hale alley where the storms Brew up and head east towards populated areas. So the hail planes do their thing just west of here, resulting in lots of small hail and heavy rains that were otherwise intended to turn into large hail further east. So far our cropland has avoided any bad hail storms. A few Stones big enough to wreck the neighbors vehicles a few weeks ago, some isolated pea sized hail yesterday out of the blue, a big hail storm in May while we were still seating and a bunch that have been within a few miles either way. There have been multiple tornadoes touchdown in the local area. We have been under tornado warnings quite a few times now.

[jazz]

Fun harvest is gone..

I dont think there will be a fun harvest for anyone. Just wishing it was in the bin already.

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Pics from kelvington.

[furrowtickler]

Ouch that’s some powerful winds

[sumdumguy]

Holy Crow, that is el destructo! The fields must be lodged too with wind like that. We don’t need that, fingers crossed and toes too.

[Sheepwheat]

Green crops lodged. Less green crops stayed up pretty fair.

Went out to check my cut hay. It’s not in swaths it is rolled up in twisted masses around the field. Scattered who knows where. So that will be fun. Goodbye fifty or so bales worth I guess. Glad I have an ancient, slow cutting haybine, so that I only had maybe 15 acres cut on that field. Lol

Get this. Seven bales rolled off the field into a slough. Eight bales were tipped on their side. Six by five bales. Some were rolled 200 yards. Only one got to the water where it is in the cattails ready for next years duck nesting I guess.

Now imagine being in that field at dusk having bales roll by you.

[Sheepwheat]

The wind was at least forty miles wide, maybe sixty from what I can tell. Worlds widest plow wind?

Other thing about lodging. If there wasn’t much rain with the wind, it didn’t flatten crops bad at all. Here it was not raining much with the wind, the rain came at the tail end of the wind. If the hay swaths would have been wet, they would not have blow to smithereens like they did.