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[JLM]

First day of summer and there's 25cm of SNOW. Unbelievable scenes

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Friday, June 21st 2019, 11:54 am - These snowy scenes may be difficult to digest, especially since it's the first day of SUMMER!

We're thinking Mother Nature may have our seasons confused as parts of western Canada face a HEAVY swath of snow right on the first day of summer.

Instead of abundant sunshine and pleasant temperatures more reminiscent of the favoured season, snowfall warnings have stretched across the higher elevations of the Rockies and into parts of the B.C. Interior this week. That's as an extremely slow and moisture-packed system dumps heavy, flooding rains on other parts of the Prairies.

While this early summer snow isn't completely unheard of for the region, more than 20 cm this late in June seems to be pretty excessive even by the heartiest of standards. Up to 25 cm had already fallen over higher terrain near Banff and Jasper by early Friday morning with another 10 cm expected before all's said and done for the Icefield Parkway Highway 93.


EXTREME WEATHER!!!

Nothing really new there, Pete. I distinctly remember a July 1 weekend about 20 years ago when I was in Cowtown about noon seeing a thermometer near the Barlow Trail that read 4 C. Calgary is NOT a problem as long as you expect anything at any time without warning. (Just don't rely on a tomato crop)

 

[petros]

Nothing really new there, Pete. I distinctly remember a July 1 weekend about 20 years ago when I was in Cowtown about noon seeing a thermometer near the Barlow Trail that read 4 C. Calgary is NOT a problem as long as you expect anything at any time without warning. (Just don't rely on a tomato crop)

Oh no no no. This is extreme weather induced by the anthropogenic global warming, climate change crisis that is to bake Canada like a carbon wrapped baked potato on a coal briquette BBQ.

What started as an early spring drought ended abruptly in a week over 4 Western Provinces.

The sun's magnetic field no longer shields us from cosmic rays and Earth’s geomagnetic field is only at 20% of what us was 50 years ago and several thousand km from where it was.

The jetstream and geomagnetic field are intertwined and operating at higher and higher latitudes everyday.

There is nothing the JST can do to fix it.

P.S. In about 5 yrs cancer rates are going to spike dramatically as the cosmic radiation rips our DNA to shreds.

Have a nice day.

P.P.S.

Arctic Plenty tomatoes grow fast and yield nonstop from late July to the first -5C frost. Longer if covered.

Green ones ripen long after picked. Fresh Tom's clear through to December.

 

[Walter]

Colorado's snowpack is 40 times normal after rare summer solstice dump
https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/ne...ck-is-40-times-normal-after-rare-14036967.php

Cold.

 

[darkbeaver]

Phenomenal hail accumulations after massive hailstorm hits Guadalajara, Mexico


Posted by Teo Blašković on July 1, 2019 at 07:44 UTC (9 hours ago)
Categories: Editors' picks, Newsflash, Severe storms, Weather phenomena

An unusually strong hailstorm hit Guadalajara, one of Mexico's most populous cities, on June 30, 2019, dumping massive amounts of hail and trapping vehicles in ice up to 1 and 2 m (3 - 6 feet) high.
"I've never seen such scenes in Guadalajara," Jalisco state governor Enrique Alfaro said. "These are never-before-seen natural phenomena. It's incredible."
Some streets transformed into rivers of dense moving hail, trapping drivers in their vehicles and forcing numerous rescue operations.
While the average accumulations were up 1 m (3 feet) high, at least 6 neighborhoods accumulated 2 m (6 feet) of hail.
The worst affected areas are Rancho Blanco and the Industrial Zone.
Nearly 200 homes and businesses reported damage and at least 50 vehicles were swept away.
There are no reports of casualties, but two people showed 'early signs of hypothermia,' Jalisco Civil Protection office said.
Featured image credit: CGTN

Severe drought leaves 1.2 million ha (2.9 million acres) of crops damaged - Shandong, China

July 01, 2019
Severe drought is affecting east China's Shandong province, causing massive crop damage. The latest statistics show extensive damage to 1.19 million ha (2.9 million acres) of crops, up from 656 667 ha (1.6 million acres) on June 18. This accounts for 21.9...

 

[petros]

‘Things are looking up' weather-wise for the Corn Belt, but is it too late?

Last week was the "warmest week of the year so far across the Corn Belt," according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Jason Nicholls, bringing much-needed good news to U.S. farmers. "Things are looking up. As far as the next week or two, it looks like typical summer weather."

However, farmers aren't in the clear yet, and the proof came in yet another week of poor numbers in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Crop Progress regarding the condition of corn.

The rain and flooding that has affected Corn Belt farmers has been reflected in the percentage of corn considered "good" or "excellent" in 18 key corn-producing states. The first rating of the season was just 59% and it dropped to 56% in the second report. This week's corn condition was also 56%; the condition of corn rated "good" or "excellent" last year was 76%.

Similarly, the condition of soybeans remained the same as last week at 54% considered "good" or "excellent." That figure was at 71% last year.

"I think both crops have fewer acres planted than last year, especially with all the flooding on top of the nonstop rain," Justin Mensik, a corn and soybean farmer in Nebraska emailed AccuWeather.

States with particularly poor corn condition data this week include Missouri (29%), Ohio (31%), Indiana (39%), Michigan (40%) and Illinois (42%). Many of those same states had low percentages for the condition of soybeans, too, including Ohio (28%), Indiana (37%), Missouri (38%) and Michigan (43%).

Edwin Brummels, an Osmond, Nebraska, farmer who works for U.S. seed producer Pioneer, has seen the uncertain nature of the season firsthand.

"Within 50 miles of me there are areas that got 98-99% of corn planted," Brummels said in an email to AccuWeather. "Others, like my immediate area, left 10% or more unplanted. I do think there is a strong push to corn, but when it gets to final yield, it's not going to be there. A large amount of acres got planted later than we would normally plant soybeans, plus this scenario also has a high amount of corn on corn acres that normally don't yield as well."

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AccuWeather predicts a 2019 corn yield of 13.13 billion bushels, while the USDA on June 10 estimated a yield of 13.68 billion bushels. Both numbers are below corn production from 2018 (14.14) and 2017 (14.67).

For the 2019 soybean yield, AccuWeather forecasts 3.942 billion bushels, and the USDA estimates 4.15 billion bushels. Soybean production was higher in both 2018 (4.544) and 2017 (4.412).

On Friday, the USDA raised its estimates for corn-planted areas for all purposes to 91.7 million acres, which would be a 3% increase from last year. The USDA lowered its soybean-planted acreage estimate to 80 million acres, down 10% from last year.

 

[Danbones]

There is some debate re the official inflatedness of those numbers and they are apparently going to re survey something like 18 states because the stated numbers are Impossible.

USDA To Re-Survey Planted Acres for Entire Corn Belt

Following the release of USDA’s June Acreage report, disbelief flooded the ag industry. USDA pegged corn acres at 91.7 million and soybean acres at 80 million. How could that be possible give the weather farmers faced this spring? Well, it’s not possible and USDA plans to re-survey 14 Midwestern states, including each of the key corn and soybean production states.
https://www.agweb.com/article/usda-to-re-survey-planted-acres-for-entire-corn-belt/

Judging by the way this fakenews has effected the futures, I suspect a major scam here.
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2019/06/28/usda-reports-surprise-sends-corn

USDA's "Incomplete" Report What Was USDA Thinking?

USDA told us in the June 28 Grain Stocks and Acreage reports on Friday that producers had planted, or still intended to plant, 91.7 million acres (ma) to corn in 2019. That number is 2.57 ma more than last year. Traders had assumed, based on pre-report surveys, that USDA would show a reduction of 2.1 ma from 2018 and a 5.76-ma drop from the March Prospective Plantings report.

WASDE had a 3-ma drop in its June estimate (to 89.8 ma), so Friday's figure was actually reversing part of the preliminary move made by the armchair folks. Everybody knows that there are big swaths of unplanted ground across the Midwest, and it is too late to plant corn for grain and safely assume maturity before frost.

So, what were those NASS analysts thinking, and what are they likely to do next?
https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2019/07/01/usda-thinking

Oh, THERE'S proof.

You know where LA is, left?

Right down there in the sun belt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Belt

...which reaches just North of Alaska according to this "USDA" map apparently.

 

[darkbeaver]

Crop Losses Are Literally Happening All Over The Globe

on July 2, 2019
Michael Snyder – The Economic Collapse June 30, 2019

Global crop losses. Click to enlarge

Let me warn you right up front – the information in this article might freak you out. If what some experts are telling us is true, a global food crisis appears to be inevitable. Even during good years we have a really difficult time feeding everyone on the planet, and now a major climate shift appears to be happening. Our sun has become exceedingly quiet, and many experts believe that this is a sign that a solar minimum is now upon us. Of course we have seen solar minimums happen quite regularly in the past, and if this is just a normal solar minimum then conditions should begin to return to normal after a couple of years. Unfortunately, evidence continues to mount that we have entered what is known as a “grand solar minimum”. In fact, Professor Valentina Zharkova says that what we are facing is a “super grand solar minimum”, and if that is true we are going to be facing climate chaos like we have never seen before. During previous “grand solar minimums” the globe was gripped by devastating famines and vast numbers of people died. Could a similar scenario potentially be in our future?
Ice Age Farmer has compiled a “Grand Solar Minimum Crop Loss Map” which you can view right here, and I appreciate our friends at ANP for pointing it out to us. Ice Age Farmer’s map shows that there are literally dozens of locations all over the globe right now that are reporting significant crop losses, and this is really unlike anything we have ever seen before. Some parts of our planet are dealing with horrific drought, but in the middle of the United States it just won’t stop raining. In some areas of the world it is too cold, while others are experiencing record heat. Everywhere we look we see extremes, and the behavior of our sun is the primary reason this is happening.
Last November I warned that we could be facing one of the coldest winters in modern times, and that is precisely what happened. Back then top scientists were warning us that a solar minimum had arrived, and since that time the behavior of the sun has continued to confirm that hypothesis…
The surface of the sun is normally a roiling, super-heated hellscape.
But Nasa images have revealed that the face of our star is looking ominously calm right now, prompting claims it’s reached a stage of its cycle called the solar minimum.
During the minimum, there are significantly fewer sunspots and its magnetic field weakens, allowing cosmic rays from outside our solar system to rain down on Earth.
This solar minimum came early, and that is exactly what we would expect if we were entering a “grand solar minimum”. Perhaps the best known “grand solar minimum” in our history was the Maunder Minimum which stretched from 1645 to 1715…
The last time a deep solar minimum was in effect was the Maunder minimum, which saw seven decades of freezing weather, began in 1645 and lasted through to 1715, and happened when sunspots were exceedingly rare.
During this period, temperatures dropped globally by 1.3 degrees celsius leading to shorter seasons and ultimately food shortages.
The food shortages during the Maunder Minimum were quite severe, and the global death toll was enormous.
Could we be facing a similar scenario this time around?
Actually, economist Martin Armstrong seems to believe that it could be even worse…
The Maunder Minimum created such a deep cold in Europe and extreme weather events elsewhere that what unfolds is a series of droughts, floods, and harvest failures. Historically, this leads to massive migrations, wars and revolutions. The fatal synergy between human and natural disasters eradicated perhaps one-third of the human population during the last event and this time we are crashing more rapidly than before. Therefore, we may exceed more than a reduction in population of one-third and reach the levels of the 14th century of 50%, which was also combined with the Black Plague.
Without a doubt, our planet is behaving very strangely right now, and reports of crop failures are regularly coming in from all over the planet.
Just check out these examples…
That layer of stress on the agricultural industry is only intensified when you zoom out to the international level, where farmers around the world are facing various dire situations. As one North Dakota farmer and Twitter user Jordan Gackle pointed out in a recent thread: Drought is continuing to disrupt wheat crops in Australia forcing the country to import some of its wheat from Canada. Some farmers in Canada are now reporting long stretches without rain under the hashtag #drought19. Head over to China and you’ll find that a legion of fall armyworms are spreading rapidly and devouring key grain crops.
It is becoming quite clear that food prices are going to rise substantially and that the world is going to produce a lot less food than it normally does this year.
And as I noted earlier, we have a tough time feeding everyone on the planet even during ideal conditions. Sadly, this even includes the United States…
In fact, it’s not just older Americans who are already suffering from hunger and malnourishment, with this 2017 story over at Feeding America reporting that more than 41 million Americans were suffering from hunger daily, including more than 13 million children, with this National Geographic story reporting that 1 out of every 6 Americans aren’t getting enough to eat.
So what will things look like if global food production drops 10 percent, 20 percent or even more?
We have never had to deal with anything like this in modern times, and meanwhile the population of the planet has grown from 1.6 billion in 1900 to 7.5 billion today.
We have entered the time of “the perfect storm”, and we are going to start to witness things happen that many people would consider to be unimaginable.
I truly hope that things will not be as bad as some of the experts are suggesting. But as far as crop failures are concerned, we don’t have to speculate. They are happening right now all over the planet, and that means that global food supplies are going to get tighter and tighter in the months ahead
About the author: Michael Snyder is a nationally-syndicated writer, media personality and political activist. He is the author of four books including Get Prepared Now, The Beginning Of The End and Living A Life That Really Matters. His articles are originally published on The Economic Collapse Blog, End Of The American Dream and The Most Important News. From there, his articles are republished on dozens of other prominent websites. If you would like to republish his articles, please feel free to do so. The more people that see this information the better, and we need to wake more people up while there is still time.

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[darkbeaver]

It,s not wise to believe any government stats about food right now unless it,s boiling in a pot in front of your eyes.

 

[Walter]

It,s not wise to believe any government stats about food right now unless it,s boiling in a pot in front of your eyes.

Grocery stores and farmers’ markets are as well-stocked as ever.

 

[MHz]

That is because nobody can afford to get there except in the 1st weekend of every month. I have no idea why.

 

[Danbones]

Coldest U.S. winter in a century
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/03/26/coldest-u-s-winter-in-a-century/

Wettest 12 Months in U.S. History
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Wettest-12-Months-US-History

Talk about the polar vortex! A list of the coldest weather ever recorded in each state

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...19-cold-weather-record-temperatures/38974589/

This is looking to be the coldest February on record for Calgary
https://dailyhive.com/calgary/coldest-february-calgary-recorded-2019

This was the coldest February on record in Metro Vancouver
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2019/03/01/coldest-february-vancouver-record/


Chicago Just Had Its Coldest Winter In History. Here's Proof.
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/04/02/chicago-coldest-winter-ever_n_5078201.html



Maybe gawd hates the US...
:O
look; he sent them weather scientists.

 

[Danbones]

Grocery stores and farmers’ markets are as well-stocked as ever.

Not sure if you have been checking out the prices?

I'm seein' humbooger at 12 bucks a kilo...and the Value Mart in Downtown Midland is NOT very well stocked lately.

 

[MHz]

Walnut is on the side that sets the prices rather than that is where he pays that for 'food'. A teeter-totter where the less we eat the more money he can pocket, never to be seen again.

Which character would he be in this cartoon?

The Railway Dragon

 

[MHz]

Not sure if you have been checking out the prices?

I'm seein' humbooger at 12 bucks a kilo...and the Value Mart in Downtown Midland is NOT very well stocked lately.

That is because everybody else is picking up 'meat' at a 'meat store' rather than 'the unknown'.

 

[Walter]

Not sure if you have been checking out the prices?
I'm seein' humbooger at 12 bucks a kilo...and the Value Mart in Downtown Midland is NOT very well stocked lately.

Midland has many food stores other than Value Mart.

 

[MHz]

No shopbot??

 

[petros]

Not sure if you have been checking out the prices?
I'm seein' humbooger at 12 bucks a kilo...and the Value Mart in Downtown Midland is NOT very well stocked lately.

Same goes for
cauliflower.

Cheap like borscht if beets were cheap but they aren't.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Midland has many food stores other than Value Mart.

There's a Mac's, a 7-11 and the Quiki-mart.

 

[petros]

EXTREME RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE EFFECT!

Parts Of Canada Actually Woke Up To Snow And Hail This Morning & Even More Is Expected

Weird flex Mother Nature, but okay.
Stephanie Hilash · Jul 08, 2019

Does someone want to let Mother Nature know that we are already a week into July and summer is supposed to be in full swing? Apparently, some places around Canada are confused what month it is because parts of Saskatchewan woke up to snow and hail this morning. And we have the pictures to prove it.


https://www.narcity.com/amp/parts-o...w-this-morning-in-the-middle-of-summer-photos

 

[darkbeaver]

EXTREME RUNAWAY GREENHOUSE EFFECT!

Parts Of Canada Actually Woke Up To Snow And Hail This Morning & Even More Is Expected

Weird flex Mother Nature, but okay.
Stephanie Hilash · Jul 08, 2019

Does someone want to let Mother Nature know that we are already a week into July and summer is supposed to be in full swing? Apparently, some places around Canada are confused what month it is because parts of Saskatchewan woke up to snow and hail this morning. And we have the pictures to prove it.


https://www.narcity.com/amp/parts-o...w-this-morning-in-the-middle-of-summer-photos

NOAA: 12-month precipitation record hits all-time high for the third month in a row, U.S.

July 09, 2019
Worst storm of the year hits Croatia, widespread damage reported

July 08, 2019



Massive floods hit Tafalla, Spain

July 08, 2019


Extremely heavy rainfall floods Washington, D.C., nearly a month's worth of rain in 1 hour

July 08, 2019