Back to Plan A, that being global cooling.
Seattle has had a very chilly Spring.
March had below average temps. April actually had five straight days that were at least ten degrees below normal. May has already had six days at least 10 degrees below normal.
A couple days ago I could see snow on the front range of the Cascades, which is not common for the second week of May.
Durham wheat, the kind that makes pasta, is overwhelmingly grown in a small triangle of northwest North Dakota, extreme northeast Montana and southern Saskatchewan. Not just North America’s supply, but the world’s supply.
Minot ND here. We just had a blizzard 3 weeks ago that dumped 50” snow in 48 hours. Snow is mostly melted off but yep, going to be a late plant.
But...is it gonna affect the pot plants?....?!?!?!?
In Upper Michigan, the rocks haven’t finished rising out of the soil yet.
We’ve had cold Springs the past 5 or 6 years here in MD.
Too bad. These farmers could use some Gorebull warming about now. Too bad there isn’t any.
And here we are in S Texas going through another drought and thinning herds. Breeder cow numbers are already low and going lower. Feed prices out the roof so calf market prices are tanking.
It is getting harder to hold on every year
Same in Iowa. Too cold, too wet for
Soybeans and corn. Grandson started some planting the other day, while it was sunny and nice but it was followed up with rain and cold.
Ping
Meanwhile, in New Mexico we are having a hotter and dryer spring than normal. Usually we can get away with no heat or AC for April and most of May. We can cool the house with open windows in the morning and evening. It’s been so windy here, that you get a layer of sand/grit everywhere if you try to leave the windows open. The last precipitation we got was a heavy wet inch or so of snow the last week of March.
Un-possible, I was promised the erf has a fever.
42 this morning in Raleigh NC. Yesterday the high was 51 in May!
Wisconsin is behind, too. Wheat is usually in by now - mostly the farmers are just NOW tilling their fields. It’s been a bonus for dairy farmers, though - still had time to dump a lot of manure on everything, so that’s good. :)
Supposedly, we ARE in a ‘Solar Minimum’ which explains the cold spring. No explosions (sunspots) on the Sun, so less warmth for us.
That said, I’m pretty sure Nature is beyond anyone’s control, so we just have to roll with the punches if we want to live on good old Planet Earth! ;)
"Global Warming"
Southern Oregon high desert:
We generally plant most of the vegetable garden on Mother’s Day. Not this year... been raining all week and then snowed all day long Mother’s Day.
To warm to go ice fishing to wet to plow end of looks good for planting.