dohboi wrote:Thanks for the info, WR. Are you officially in drought conditions up there, or just dry? Is there a good drought map for Canada, that you know of, that gets updated regularly?
Here's something you can peruse. Look at the drought intensity map, the arrow is at July 2015. Edmonton and rest of central Alberta, actually most of Alberta, was in severe to extreme drought conditions. If you push the arrow on the map to the far right you will see current conditions, which so far are in the abnormally dry to moderate drought range. Which doesn't seem that bad until you consider that we are into an early, warm spring with very little moisture from a winter with not much snow. Unless patterns really change and we get lots of rain in the next couple of months, we appear to be heading for conditions at least as bad or worse than 2015.
http://www.agr.gc.ca/eng/?id=1430766471261