6 inches of snow on April 24 - then five sub-zero nights

[sumdumguy]

Mark this on your calendars - this is scientific proof of global warming.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Apparently you didn't get the memo either, only warm events are allowed to be used as evidence of global warming, cool events are just weather. There will be a few posters joining this thread shortly to remind us of this rule.

[AC man]

We had 2 inches of snow here and some rain. There are some old myths about spring weather that I have heard over the years and I am sure there are others.

1 The crow needs 3 snows on it's back before spring.
2 What the weather is like on Good Friday you will receive for 40 days. I sure hope not!!!!

[Braveheart]

I remember as a high school kid all my friends going to Clear Lake on May Long. We called it Victoria Day back then. I stayed home to help with seeding. Two of the three years they went they woke up to at least 4" of snow.

Of course our cars back then got about 6 mpg on leaded gas but try as we might we couldn't cause global warming.

[fjlip]

Check out the PIG'S forecast... NO spring in 2017...

The forecast this year is based on spleens from "indoor pigs" from the Ear View Hutterite Colony and "free range" pigs from Hazlet. The prognostication was completed on December 10, 2016 at the Artesian in Regina at the Pig Spleen Prognostication Party. Entertainment was by Megan Nash and Jazz in Your Pants. The free range pigs had much smaller spleens and less fat on them than the "indoor" spleens, and this is what most of the predictions are based on. The 2017 winter will be colder than normal with some really big temperature swings. The end of December will be nice and, just before the start of the New Year, temperatures will dip to below normal for the first half of January. Mid-month, temperatures will rebound with the potential of rain. Temperatures will fluctuate around normal until the end of January and then drop again for the month of February. March will start off cold and then improve mid-month when the worst of the cold will be over. April and May will hover around normal temperatures and then dip to below normal again at the end of May into June. June will be below average in general.

Significant fog events indicate the precipitation mid and end of January and mid and end of February/ Possibility of sleet and rain in January. Spring will be average until the end of May when it will be cold and damp again which is not ideal for farmers who might be late seeding. There will be above average soil moisture for seeding. There is potential for some localized flooding with the wet conditions all over the province.

January
The end of December will be nice. However, declining temperatures into January will result in reall cold. The first part of January (January 1 to 10) will be cold to extremely cold with high winds. This will last until the 15th or 16th when temperatures will rebound quickly for a short while. Unusually nice conditions will be experienced around January 17 when there could be sleet or rain events during positive temperatures. After about the 20th, temperatures will recede again to the end of the month. There will be precipitation on the 10th, 16th (possible rain), 24th and between th 25th and 29th.

February
The end of January will be colder than normal, but this won't last too long and will improve to -10 range during the first week. After this, temperatures will dip to below average to the end of the month with some short reprieves during precipitation events. The end of the month will be cold with days of high winds.

March
Following the trend in February, temperatures will start off cold (-20) but will gradually get better during the first 10 days. Temperatures of -5 mid-month can be expected to improve to around freezing by the end. There will be some precipitation during the month with significant precipitation at the end.

April
April will start off warm but have high winds at the start. Temperatures will remain above average until mid-month and then start to dip to below seasonal averages around the 17th or 18th. The end of April will be slightly below average with temperatures around +6.

May
May will start off below average but will rebound to very nice temperatures mid-month with temperatures reaching +15. High winds again at the start of May with some rain during the first week. This will end around the 20th when temperatures will drop to below average to the end of May and into June.

June
Temperatures in June will be below average in general. Starting off with temperatures around +8 and a rain or more solid precipitation. Temperatures will rebound somewhat during the first half but remain below normal to the end of the month. Temperatures around 14 to 17 can be expected. Most of the precipitation will be concentrated at the start of the month and there should be no extreme winds.

[macdon02]

The Fed's have overdone it with the threat of a tax, we've changed our habits already and now there's no going back from the deep freeze they have induced!!! They screwed us!!! (Sarcasm)

[AC man]

I remember the spring of 1974 seeding did not start until after the May long weekend. There are no two years alike,some with early springs and some with later springs or early and late falls. The climate changes all the time and as for global warming that is nothing more than a tax grab by our wonderful government.

[checking]

yr.no - what a disappointing weather site. 0 precipitation - zero for our area LOL. It has been snowing steady for hours. Can't even get it right while it's happening - good grief!

[farmaholic]

I didn't think it involved only warming.... it's the extremes they like to dwell on.

[Horse]

Braveheart. I don't know what you. Drove but I had a 52 ihc 1 ton that did better than that, and a 58 Studebaker car at 26/28,but then I guess we can all tell it like we think will embellish our side of debate.
Farms everyone talks about normal, well so called normal is an average, so -40and +40 means 0 for normal, now expand that for 100 yr and you still only have an average.

[Braveheart]

1968 Cougar with 302 high performance then for true gas guzzling, a 1969 Barracuda with a 340 six pack, 4 speed Hurst.

Both needed rings and burned almost as much oil as gas.

Settled down car was a 74 Olds Cutlass with 350 4 bbl, dual exhaust. But the pollution police had already ruined cars by then.

[tweety]

Its just evidence that the carbon tax is working.

[chuckChuck]

https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-cold-weather.htm

Does cold weather disprove global warming?

A local cold day has nothing to do with the long-term trend of increasing global temperatures.

It's freaking cold!
It's easy to confuse current weather events with long-term climate trends, and hard to understand the difference between weather and climate. It's a bit like being at the beach, trying to figure out if the tide is rising or falling just by watching individual waves roll in and out. The slow change of the tide is masked by the constant churning of the waves.

In a similar way, the normal ups and downs of weather make it hard to see slow changes in climate. To find climate trends you need to look at how weather is changing over a longer time span. Looking at high and low temperature data from recent decades shows that new record highs occur nearly twice as often as new record lows.

New records for cold weather will continue to be set, but global warming's gradual influence will make them increasingly rare.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-cold-weather.htm

Does cold weather disprove global warming?

A local cold day has nothing to do with the long-term trend of increasing global temperatures.

It's freaking cold!
It's easy to confuse current weather events with long-term climate trends, and hard to understand the difference between weather and climate. It's a bit like being at the beach, trying to figure out if the tide is rising or falling just by watching individual waves roll in and out. The slow change of the tide is masked by the constant churning of the waves.

In a similar way, the normal ups and downs of weather make it hard to see slow changes in climate. To find climate trends you need to look at how weather is changing over a longer time span. Looking at high and low temperature data from recent decades shows that new record highs occur nearly twice as often as new record lows.

New records for cold weather will continue to be set, but global warming's gradual influence will make them increasingly rare.

Right on que, just like I promised, we have the pronouncement that cold is weather, warm is climate... thanks Chuck.

[Oliver88]

Right on que, just like I promised, we have the pronouncement that cold is weather, warm is climate... thanks Chuck.

They read right from Reverend Gore and St. Suzuki handbooks.