Rain Machine

[farming101]

Is doing a test run before the big event. Should be no problems.

[farmaholic]

Woke by the wind and rain....SE Sask is going to "get it", so far we are only on the fringe, but...

Radar looks intense.

Wouldn't it be nice if it didn't matter?

Back to sleep, you too 101!

[sumdumguy]

Wow, the radar really does look wicked for SE corner again. In the good ole days the south half of the province was hot and dry, north half cool and wet. Do you think Rafferty changed all of that?

[farmaholic]

Missed the worst of the system, only .22 inches, but kinda keeps things too DAMP

See, it could always be worse.

[freewheat]

Did I mention the creeks are running up here?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Did I mention the creeks are running up here?

My sympathies. Complete opposite here. I've had to keep making drainage deeper and wider and bigger culverts trying to keep up, now last year and this, I keep looking at all these giant bone dry ditches and stranded culverts and find it hard to believe it could ever be that wet. Never flowed last year or this. Basically quit raining in June 2014 after being drowned out for most of a decade.

[grassfarmer]

I missed all the weather excitement at home today being at a meeting in Brandon. Fifteen minutes of hail followed by a short burst of intense rain got 1.75 inches in total. Shredded a lot of corn leaves and snapped a lot of regrowth alfalfa plants off. Looks to be a fair bit of canola damage in the immediate area. Had close to an inch on Wednesday that left the ground a lot wetter than this one did. Today's came so fast it ran over the surface, filled every dip and depression. Keep on sending it - I'll take wet over dry every time!

[farming101]

Rain and wind combo forecast for the main event. Likely won't be a barley crop left standing