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I think the biggest worry is soon going to be the price of food next year. The later planting takes place the less available food there will be, especially meat. Meat production depends upon the production of feed. Right now the grain and corn have not been planted, looks like everything will be a least a month late. For some areas it has already become too late to plant corn.
Very few fields have been plowed here in ND. Which means a late start for many crops, which in turn means reduced production.
It is also getting chilly again. Although danger of a killing frost is normally not over until May 15. It is still possible to get the crops planted by June 1, if the fields dry up enough to plow.
I think the biggest worry is soon going to be the price of food next year. The later planting takes place the less available food there will be, especially meat. Meat production depends upon the production of feed. Right now the grain and corn have not been planted, looks like everything will be a least a month late. For some areas it has already become too late to plant corn.
Very few fields have been plowed here in ND. Which means a late start for many crops, which in turn means reduced production.
It is also getting chilly again. Although danger of a killing frost is normally not over until May 15. It is still possible to get the crops planted by June 1, if the fields dry up enough to plow.
Yep....btw how bad was the freezing earlier in States like Oklahoma and Kansas? I'm pretty sure their red wheat would have been affected. I have my doubts they had corn in at that time.
Yep....btw how bad was the freezing earlier in States like Oklahoma and Kansas? I'm pretty sure their red wheat would have been affected. I have my doubts they had corn in at that time.
That is also another factor that affects our planting and I believe also all the way up to your area as the planters will not begin moving North until after they finish with the seeding in the south. Even if all the fields were plowed right now, planting would not start as the Farm workers and seeding equipment is still down in Texas and Oklahoma. The should have already been in Nebraska and South Dakota.
...FREEZE WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY
MORNING...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TAUNTON HAS ISSUED A FREEZE
WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY
MORNING.
* MINIMUM TEMPERATURES...UPPER 20S TO LOW 30S IN NORTHWEST
MASSACHUSETTS AND SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE. LOW TO MID 30S IN
SOUTHERN AND EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS...MUCH OF RHODE ISLAND...AND
NORTHERN CONNECTICUT.
The fantastic spring weather here is about to end. For the first 11 days of may SeaTac has averaged 62.2F/16.8C, 8.2F/4.6C above average, and it's been sunny almost every day. Unfortunately more seasonal weather is on its way, with showers and highs around 62F/16C forecast for the next week. Before that happens though, I wanted to brag about how unusually nice it's been lately. In fact, it was 87F (30C) a few days ago, the warmest temperature recorded for this early in the year.
The frost advisory map shows that a big late-season frost event is underway, though it will fall short of a hard freeze. Still, big stuff. Here's a recent depiction of the 500 mb conditions. Obviously a huge cut-off low has plunged into the Great Lakes region, and there's a ridge in the West:
Blotches of snow are showing up over the region. To see this sort of snow this time of year is unusual, but that's been the theme this year :
Bradford, Pennsylvania is currently reporting 40F with light snow, not something you see reported often:
Meanwhile, Marquette and the rest of the Upper Peninsula have been very chilly today, with Marquette only rising to 40F. 26F is expected tonight, which is unusually cold for this late in the year:
Sounds like a repeating theme this year in different areas of the U.S.
YESTERDAYS 35 DEGREES AT GAYLORD MICHIGAN IS THE COLDEST HIGH TEMPERATURE EVER RECORDED IN THE MONTH OF MAY FOR GAYLORD SINCE CONTINUOUS RECORDS BEGAN IN 1951.
A DAILY RECORD SNOWFALL OF 2.0 INCHES WAS SET...BEATING THE OLD RECORD OF 1.0 INCHES...SET BACK IN 1971.
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