An unusally cold spring

[Guest]

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6503077

Apparently it rained one night at the North Pole in feb
Big news
This doesn’t seem to be ??

[furrowtickler]

Are the ski hills still open in the mountains as well ?

[seldomseen]

I thought they told us there would be no more snow in the winter way back at the Vancouver Olympics due to global warming?
On a more serious note
Crop development is really lagging behind around here. Looks more like the 10th of June then it does the last days of June. Beating a fall frost is going to be tough unless the weather changes fast. Forecast doesn't give much hope.

[Taiga]

We are about 3 weeks behind normal. We need some heat. Only been a few days over 20C this year so far.

[WiltonRanch]

Are the ski hills still open in the mountains as well ?

Sunshine reopened some runs for July 1 skiing.

[furrowtickler]

Sunshine reopened some runs for July 1 skiing.

I thought I heard that today

[Guest]

Sunshine reopened some runs for July 1 skiing.

How did the proprogranda machine let that happen?

[Sheepwheat]

I thought they told us there would be no more snow in the winter way back at the Vancouver Olympics due to global warming?
On a more serious note
Crop development is really lagging behind around here. Looks more like the 10th of June then it does the last days of June. Beating a fall frost is going to be tough unless the weather changes fast. Forecast doesn't give much hope.

Standing on my high sheep land, it is finally turning green as I look over the miles to the southwest. Canola still not covering the ground, but getting there. Spraying just getting going. Went to Saskatoon yesterday. What struck me is the lateness yes, until you get west of Humboldt.

And its not just the odd field, hey? It’s the whole countryside in some pretty darn high producing areas. We need a frost free September. At least. It’s a shame, cuz it’s a beauty of a crop coming, and growing conditions are extremely good.

[Guest]

july 1,2 &3 nights +2 to +4, global f u c king warming all right
when are these idiots gonna clue into the sunspot problem??

[TOM4CWB]

july 1,2 &3 nights +2 to +4, global warming all right
when are these idiots gonna clue into the sunspot problem??

https://ca.yahoo.com/news/scientists-surprised-geomagnetic-storm-opens-101100940.html

Sky NewsSky News
Scientists surprised as geomagnetic storm opens 'crack' in Earth's magnetosphere

Wed, June 29, 2022, 4:11 AM
A geomagnetic storm hit our planet over the weekend, surprising scientists as it did not appear to originate from a solar flare.

The storm came amid a rare alignment of five planets, offering photographers the opportunity to picture them against against a bright aurora.

Astronomers now believe the storm was the result of a much rarer phenomenon than a solar flare - something called a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) caused by two streams of solar wind meeting.

CIRs are created when solar wind streams at different speeds interact, bringing with them a huge shock and build-up of plasma at an extraordinary speed - 700km per second in this case - and without the tell-tale sign of a sunspot.

Without a sunspot signalling a coronal mass ejection, scientists had no signal that a geomagnetic storm was on the way.

When it hit Earth the storm managed to "open a crack in our planet's magnetosphere" according to the Space Weather news site.

The solar storm followed a week after an enormous sunspot - more than twice the size of our planet - was pointed at Earth.

Although it subsequently rotated away and the risk of a dangerous CME faded, scientists do not know whether it was connected to the CIR.

But even if we had been able to predict the storm, the planet has limited defences against the most powerful forms of space weather, and our increasing dependence on electronics makes us vulnerable to their effects.

The Carrington Event is believed to be the largest solar storm ever recorded which hit Earth in 1859.

It left an aurora visible across the sky, even in latitudes much closer to the equator, and was described in contemporary reports as even brighter than the light of a full moon.

It caused the failure of telegraph systems all across Europe and North America, and a similar storm today could cause trillions of dollars in damage globally.

Researchers believe that magnetic radiation from giant solar storms caused the sudden and nearly instantaneous detonation of dozens of sea mines in Vietnam in the 1970s.

Earlier this year SpaceX confirmed that a geomagnetic storm destroyed most of the Starlink satellites it had attempted to get into orbit during a launch.

Solar activity has been observed rising and falling naturally every 11 years, although not quite like clockwork, and astronomers believe we are now entering a period of increased solar activity which could peak in 2025.

A new family of sunspots, discovered on the surface of our star in 2020, unleashed the biggest solar flare that scientists have seen since 2017.

[Old Cowzilla]

Still wearing jacket in morning to do chores and noticed some pasture turning black ( was green )from standing water. More likely rum drinks instead of cold beer if watching fireworks.

[furrowtickler]

Still wearing jacket in morning to do chores and noticed some pasture turning black ( was green )from standing water. More likely rum drinks instead of cold beer if watching fireworks.

Yup sitting around the fire after grad last night , everyone all bundled up like beginning May

[hedgehog]

Cold in scotland too

Cold here for june, need a jacket in the morning
Crops are two weeks early as we had no winter and now very dry
The wind has never stopped since march, and now drying hay
Roundup going on winter barley and canola next week

[shtferbrains]

Good to hear from you hedgehog.

How are prices holding up there?

We're you fertilizer prices 3X?