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Thank goodness for April Snow!

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Dylan Biggs

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Snowy morning walk with Valleyhills pair
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Spoiled Bulls
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Cows and Antelope
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Not bad dinner weather.
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Snow Corral
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Snow for lunch
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Snow squeeze
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A few drifts
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Some Pig
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Did you get enough to help out a bit?

Looks like Cory might be getting some tonight.

I haven't talked to my son much today but he said the rod this morning was littered with cars and trucks. They camped in Oyen for the night but made Lacombe by noon.
 
We were south of most of the snow, but the wind was 60+ mph all day. We had snow stuck on every window on every side of the house this morning.
We were headed to buy a bull but the sale was cancelled.
Took my dad 15 minutes to drive the 2 miles to our house this morning.
But any water is welcome at the moment, so life is good...
 
Glad you got moisture finally, but hope the rest comes in the form of rain :D . That does look like a tough spot to weather a blizzard in :shock: . The drifts look like home :roll: .
 
Wow, those pics give me the heebeejeebees. Yikes. I've never experienced anything like that. Must be a little intimidating. But I guess if it works as moisture it's a good thing? I hope everything works out for you.
 
You got a lot of snow, wow. Things might be looking up for a good crop and pasture this year in your area; even though it seems like a real PITA right now. It looks like your cattle are handling it reallly well.. :)
Yet again it missed us.. We just got a sprinkle of snow that the wind just blew away.
Getting really tired of every snow fall or rain fall going right by us.. :?
 
Looks like most of it is in the chicken, pig and bull pens and not much out in the open. Those are tough storms to deal with.
 
Looks like quite a storm you folks have just endured. The top photo speaks volumes. I know what conditions it takes to pound the snow into the hair of cattle like that picture shows. Glad you all survived, and hope this primes the pump for you to get more moisture in the form of gentle spring rains. Thanks for the pictures.
 
Wyoming Rancher, beggars can't be choosers though rain would be nice. It is good it was warm, or it could have done some real damage. That pair was a purchased bred 3 yr old, our herd doesn't start calving for another month.

Silver, the heebeejeebees that's not good, hopefully they were fleeting. :) :). We have had much worse, 2 years ago it hit the 3rd week of April, lasted for 10 days, the wind as bad and -10 C, not as much snow though, lots of folks were turned out and calving. Conservative estimate on losses in the east central and east south was at least 10,000 calves lost. We went through that in 1991, an unforecasted weather event with same wind but mixture of sleet and snow hit April 27, we were turned out and it was a major wreck. Needless to say I am not a fan of April Calving. Thank you for your kind thoughts.

little bow, you are right we do need it, in any form. Thank you.

per, ya most of it is seems to have ended up in the yard and corrals, but that buck brush out in the open that the Ag guys want a fella to kill with spray did a good job trapping a 8 to 12 inches of snow right where it is. Snow trap is crucial.

Soapweed, ya that little rascal was out in the bald a good 1/4 mile from any cover, his mom stayed with him, to bad she didn't move him to some buck brush for cover. Everyone is fine though, that + 18 C weather sort of lulled us into not paying attention to the forecast. Though my Dad claims they weren't forecasting the blizzard until it was on top of us, by that time they were dead on with the forecast. :lol: :wink:
 
YIKES-- and here I was whining about our cool breezy condititions this morning while out stretching up some fence....
Dylan- you can keep that stuff...

Weather boys are talking about us getting some moisture tho- starting tomorrow night...But luckily we're talking 50 degree temps- and they are even mentioning thunderstorms....

SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY... ACCURACY BETWEEN MODELS IS NOT
EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH IN IN MESOSCALE FEATURE TIMING DROPPING CONFIDENCE
FOR EXACT TIMES... HOWEVER MOST TO ALL OF THE SIMILAR MESOSCALE FEATURES
ARE STILL EVIDENT IN EACH MODEL INDICATING A GOOD CHANCE AT
OCCURRENCE... WITH JUST THE QUESTION OF WHEN. SYNOPTICALLY A LONG
WAVE TROUGH IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OF THE WEST COAST OF CALIFORNIA
SATURDAY NIGHT AND COME ON SHORE BY SUNDAY RAPIDLY MOVING ACROSS
THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST. MEANWHILE A LEE SIDE MOUNTAIN TROUGH WILL
DEVELOP OVER WYOMING. THE LEE MOUNTAIN TROUGH WILL QUICKLY FEED
GULF MOISTURE INTO THE REGION INCREASING THE DEWPOINTS ACROSS
NORTHEAST MONTANA STEADILY THROUGH MONDAY. UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE
AND A FEW EMBEDDED MESOSCALE SHORTWAVES ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO ARRIVE
SUNDAY AFTERNOON INTO SUNDAY NIGHT AND WILL INTERACT WITH THE
SURFACE TROUGH OVER WYOMING TO GENERATING SOME LOW PRESSURE CYCLOGENESIS
ACROSS NORTHERN WYOMING AND SOUTHERN MONTANA. WARM FRONTOGENESIS
IN THE REGION IS ALSO EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BUT MAY NOT BE
ASSOCIATED DIRECTLY WITH THE DEVELOPING LOW SUNDAY NIGHT. WHILE
THESE CONDITIONS ARE OUT OF PHASE BETWEEN MODELS BOTH THE FRONT
AND THE LOW APPEAR TO HAS SUFFICIENT STRENGTH TO GENERATE A FAIR
AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATION... ESPECIALLY ALONG NORTHERN SECTION OF
THE CWA SUNDAY NIGHT. BY MONDAY WARM FRONTAL DYNAMICS WILL HAVE
LIFTED WELL NORTH... HOWEVER THE EJECTION OF LOW PRESSURE FROM
WYOMING MAY CONTINUE A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON SHOWERS AND POSSIBLY
THUNDERSTORMS. CONFIDENCE IN MONDAY THUNDERSTORMS IS LOW DUE TO
THE MASSIVE CAP IN BUFR SOUNDINGS... BUT AN INGREDIENTS BASED
FORECAST STILL POINTS TOWARD A MORE CONSERVATIVE APPROACH AND
POSSIBLE LOW CAPPED CELLS. GAH

.LONG TERM...MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...
THE LONG TERM FORECAST BEGINNING MONDAY NIGHT REFLECTS A
CONTINUED WET PATTERN...AT LEAST INITIALLY. UNFORTUNATELY...MODEL
SOLUTION DISCREPANCIES ARE THE GREATEST DURING THE MOST ACTIVE
PART OF THE FORECAST.

MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY...THE AREA WILL LIKELY SEE CONTINUED RAIN
SHOWERS AS A LARGE STORM SYSTEM PUSHES THROUGH THE INTER-MOUNTAIN
WEST AND UPPER ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGIONS. EXPECT HIGHER PRECIPITATION
TOTALS ACROSS OUR CENTRAL AND WESTERN CWA. AN AREA OF INSTABILITY
NOSES ITS WAY INTO OUR SOUTHERN AND EASTERN ZONES DURING THIS TIME
PERIOD. INCLUDED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE FORECAST TO REPRESENT THIS. SHOWED
THIS INCREASING TREND IN EXPECTED QPF AND WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF
QPF AMOUNTS NEED TO BE INCREASED MORE AS THIS TIME FRAME NEARS.
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Faster horses said:
We can put on a lot of clothes, McGee...but there is a limit
to how many we can take off. :shock:

114 degrees would KILL ME. :P
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:-) There is a limit to how much we SHOULD take off, given bsc and all. :shock:
 
McGee213288 said:
:shock: ...I do NOT see how ya'll live there...I suppose you would melt in our 114* ...still...DANG!!!... :o
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Depends on what you get use to. Heat isn't too bad, if it comes with high humidity then it's a killer. Our heat up here in the summer is usually very dry and when it gets over 100 it just takes a bit of getting used to. I must admit that my tolerance for winter isn't as good as it used to be. Thank goodness we haven't had any good old fashioned winters for a long time.
 
It was -25c and clear here this morning. I managed to miss finding a cow that had calved in a snowbank and it froze. This particular cow tried to tell us she wanted a trip to town last year when her calf died of scours and we didn't listen. :roll: She raised a good graft and stayed.

Did bring one to the basement and got all but the califlower ears warmed up.
Ya win some and lose some. :?
 
gcreekrch said:
It was -25c and clear here this morning. I managed to miss finding a cow that had calved in a snowbank and it froze. This particular cow tried to tell us she wanted a trip to town last year when her calf died of scours and we didn't listen. :roll: She raised a good graft and stayed.

Did bring one to the basement and got all but the califlower ears warmed up.
Ya win some and lose some. :?
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That's a tough break GC. In that kind of weather you pretty much have to live with them to not miss one ,which is impossible. My first calf of the year (Jan 1st) was a calfsicle. He was born in between night checks and after a long stay in the house we managed to save all but the tip of his ear. Sucks as he was out of a really good AI sire..

Good luck with the rest of your calving and hopefully the weather will be more forgiving for you.

Dylan, I showed hubby pics of your snow storm and all he said was "holy shytt, that is only an hour and a half from here." :shock:
 
McGee213288 said:
Faster horses said:
We can put on a lot of clothes, McGee...but there is a limit
to how many we can take off. :shock:

114 degrees would KILL ME. :P
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I can find a shade tree...easier than I can tote fire.... :P
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I was in Tulsa a few years ago in the summer, although under a tree was slightly better it was mighty hot for this northerner and I didn't want to remove too many clothes on account of the mosquitoes. No Mosquitoes at Hanna this morning. :wink:
 

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