Coldest temp anomaly in the WORLD...here

**ajl** · Mar 26, 2018, 13:31

RIP spring...summer. Last year was the first year where it was next year country before a seed was planted due to way to wet in the spring and this will be a repeat.

**Partners** · Mar 26, 2018, 16:42

Last spring was a mud bowl..and the crops turned out awesome. Think positive boys.

**grassfarmer** · Mar 26, 2018, 16:59

Or from another perspective - our upcoming 14 day forecast - yeah it's a cool week but hardly enough to write the season off. We'll start calving cows before any of you are seeding crops and I'm not loosing any sleep over it. I watch this graph regularly and it's been notable over the last couple of months how often the overnight low has been substantially above the 30 year average.

**makar** · Mar 26, 2018, 18:19

Last spring was a mud bog and seeded next to nothing, think negative and reality wont hurt as bad.

**ajl** · Mar 26, 2018, 19:10

Actually need to look with your eyes open Grass. It is remarkable in our area how often the temp has been below average. Set at least 7 low temp records around here this winter with a number of them last Nov. and a couple around the weekend of Feb 10. Local weather here is Vegreville AB. Cattle guys here have been pushing calving later to avoid spring storms. This was early May, I guess now they will have to push it to June. Then they have a 400lb calf to wean in the fall. With the death loss averaged in due to calving in snow last spring, there was not many Lbs of calf per cow last year. Most farmers think they are doing better than they really are.

**furrowtickler** · Mar 26, 2018, 20:22

Sun cycles will â€œTrumpâ€ the global warming theory .
Sun cycles have dictated temperature fluctuations on earth for a millennium.
Current cycles point to cooling .
But ice core samples from millions of years could be wrong ...
so much â€œrecent â€œ data has been fudged by â€œleading â€œ scientists to push agendas itâ€™s confused many people.
Yes glaciers have retreated and ice caps have fluctuated since the end of the last ice age .
The focus needs to be on overall pollution, not just carbon . Just my opinion

**grassfarmer** · Mar 26, 2018, 20:25

Not sure what I've to open my eyes too? the fact your weather has maybe been different to ours or the fact you can get spring storms on the prairies? We've been calving with an April 20th start date since 2003 and have averaged about 3 storm days per year. We can cope with that and i'll take my chances then rather than barn calve through the winter months or later in fly season.

**ajl** · Mar 26, 2018, 21:09

That was open ones eyes to how much below average the temperature has been much of the winter. I appears the trend is continuing. Certainly no global warming around here, maybe different in southern MB. To get decent weather at calving, going to need to go to mid may here.

**farmaholic** · Mar 26, 2018, 22:08

Originally posted by ajl View Post

RIP spring...summer. Last year was the first year where it was next year country before a seed was planted due to way to wet in the spring and this will be a repeat.

Isn't that the peril of living in the wet black soil zone? Like risk of drought is for me here in the Slum of the Ghetto! Now if we could just find a happy medium.

Coldest temp anomaly in the WORLD...here