September 14
Summer continues. Dry, dusty, and warm, at least 500 miles to the nearest cloud for the 12th and 13th, and only a few high feathers today as Saskatchewan got in on some late summer action moving up from the south. It’s been a boon to farmers, a good portion of the grain crops are in the bin, canola is still a bit behind, a week ago we saw a field along the QE2 still flowering. According to farmers around here, the wheat and barley turned out pretty nice after all, as long as the hail stayed away. The local hutterite colony lost 1500 acres to the last batch that tore through here August 21.
Hopes were high this morning for a late summer season ending spectacular on Thursday, the WRF forecasting decent instability and some crazy helicity, but this has changed a lot in the last run. Hoping the forecast model CPU has gas or something and comes back around with a better setup in the next run.
I think we are on Day 26 without any serious rain. Accuweather has an early “European Winter Prediction” up and it says warm and dry right through the winter. That’ll be a disaster if it is. 1988 all over again. I for one am skeptical of such extreme predictions, unless that El Nino really gets revved up!!! Then we’ll have a winter to what we’ve had all this September.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:51 amWe have had 1mm of rain here since August 14. Beyond dry.
September 17th, 2009 at 9:12 amAre long range predictions ever right? Not sure why people even bother really.
If they can start predicting the weather a week in advance I would be happy.