Is it raining where needed?

[jake550]

Just enough rain here to make sure the crop has disease. Actually hard to believe how high the humidity has been with the ground being so dry.
Great fuzz weather for the flowering wheat.

[Hopalong]

Maybe will take a prairie wide and extended drought to increase productive value of black soil zones to more in line with brown zones of Palliser triangle.
Was an eye opener to me many years ago to see higher land values of brown soils.
Think recent wet years have favoured brown soils and more drought prone areas.
Younger farmers who have not lived through drought will get their own eye opener.
Likely best to expect average or normal moisture but be prepared to deal with extremes.

[AC man]

Just a few drops here just enough to make the truck look dirty. Maybe if I wash my truck it will rain,HOPEFULLY! We sure need some moisture.

[furrowtickler]

Never got what was needed in this area .
It helped but we are still well below 50% normal .... including May .

[Blaithin]

Got 1/4" on Sunday night and 4.25" on Monday night. Was good timing after the 30+ days and just before the next round of 30+. Canolas tall enough the dog has to leap.

[fjlip]

And where is this ideal spot on the DRY prairies that won the T-storm lottery?

[Blaithin]

And where is this ideal spot on the DRY prairies that won the T-storm lottery?

I'm east of Olds if that's what you were asking.

[sumdumguy]

We have relatives at Didsbury.

[GDR]

We have relatives at Didsbury.

Hey I'm from Didsbury, I know your relative he makes good Chinese food I think his name is Dimsumguy!

Only an inch here this week, we'll take it but could use some on a regular basis, we had muddy seeding conditions and a couple 2inchers in may and early June but nothing since and that heat and wind is tough on everything. Cereals mostly ok, average I would think, there are some piss poor canola crops though, some look good but looks like a bunch of heat blasting, specially RR varieties. Grass needs more soon, gonna be some hungry critters.

Not sure no 4" at once is the lotto either, that's likely gonna do more harm than good.

The storms in our area that got lots of rain also got some nasty hail. Did you Blaithin?

[GDR]

Other problem with weather is the dam averages. If you look at rainfall totals for last 12 months I bet most of us are average or above but it's the timing that's screwed up. Last year was super dry till end of June then didn't stop till freeze up but on paper looked like a good year. I bet it turns out the same this year numbers ok but timing wrong. Couple big 5inch September rains and a few minus 4 nights in august to balance this heat out and it will be all good. Right?😩😠