June 3rd sky
How about this weather, eh!
Tisdale - Friday , June 15, 2012
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The picture at the top of the page was taken at the start of June which began by being pretty similar to the chilly and wet May. Things haven’t changed much with the temperature rarely rising to the level were we need to have air conditioning in our cars. Last Monday I had the air condition in my little Escape fixed. We bought the vehicle in the winter and it was not until just two weeks ago I felt the need to turn on the air and discovered it wasn’t working. But, it is repaired now but it hasn’t been warm enough to be required.
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Most people in Saskatchewan are pretty familiar with drought, that seemed to be the thing for summer for much of my life but alas things are changing as climate changes are now pretty obvious and we have all come to realize that the patterns of weather we have been familiar with all of our lives are undergoing some gradual but definitely radical changes. Warmer, milder winters and for this part of North America significantly more precipitation.
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Unfortunately, the observation, reporting and predicting of weather has become no longer the business of Environment Canada. Automated weather stations have replace weather offices across the country and actual weather making and prediction is a thing of the past. Without witnesses with experience on the ground the business of monitoring the weather is no longer possible and the weather predictions are all but completely unreliable. Last Sunday was to be raining all across Saskatchewan all day long. We drove to Regina in sunshine spent the day in the city and saw some scattered light showers from Raymore north close to ten in the evening.
I noticed that in Alberta the provincial government has weather monitoring equipment spotted around the province simply because Environment Canada just is no longer on the job. Here in Saskatchewan we really should consider establishing a provincial weather system to inform and warn the public.
Farmer groups and computer people have already set up a couple of weather monitoring networks but they only report what is and do not have meteorologist to work out the details of things to come.
In the mean time have some patience, there is a good chance you will get a bit of a tan in July or if not then this coming winter.
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