Flooding In Saskatchewan, Snow In Calgary And Heatwave In Ottowa
What is going on in Canada at the moment?
Flooding of "historic" proportions in Saskatchewan, Canada's largest wheat producing province, means that only 55% of springs crops were sown as of May 24th, compared with 81% normally at this time of year.
More rain is forecast for the region Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They don't want any more, having just had the wettest April and May on record.
Accompanying the rains have been cooler than normal conditions too, leading to very poor drying conditions, say Martell Crop Projections.
Rosetown East, in the south of the region picked up over eight inches of rain in May, almost 7 inches more than normal for the month.
Meanwhile parts of southern Manitoba saw rainfall totals in excess of 4 inches over the past weekend alone. Farmers in the province now face a race against time to hope that their saturated fields dry out so that they can get their wheat planted before the June 20 deadline for crop insurance passes.
Further west in Alberta some farms in the Calgary area the cold weather brought up to 3.5 inches of snow over the weekend.
Elsewhere in the country Ottawa had a stunning high of 35.8 C, whilst hail stones the size of golf balls reportedly hit London, Ontario.
Read more here: Canada's week of wacky weather
Flooding of "historic" proportions in Saskatchewan, Canada's largest wheat producing province, means that only 55% of springs crops were sown as of May 24th, compared with 81% normally at this time of year.
More rain is forecast for the region Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They don't want any more, having just had the wettest April and May on record.
Accompanying the rains have been cooler than normal conditions too, leading to very poor drying conditions, say Martell Crop Projections.
Rosetown East, in the south of the region picked up over eight inches of rain in May, almost 7 inches more than normal for the month.
Meanwhile parts of southern Manitoba saw rainfall totals in excess of 4 inches over the past weekend alone. Farmers in the province now face a race against time to hope that their saturated fields dry out so that they can get their wheat planted before the June 20 deadline for crop insurance passes.
Further west in Alberta some farms in the Calgary area the cold weather brought up to 3.5 inches of snow over the weekend.
Elsewhere in the country Ottawa had a stunning high of 35.8 C, whilst hail stones the size of golf balls reportedly hit London, Ontario.
Read more here: Canada's week of wacky weather
