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Canada Prairies Soil Moisture Best Of The Season

Kansas City, August 11 (World Weather Inc.) – An impressive week of rain fell across portions of Canada’s Prairies resulting in the best topsoil moisture assessment of the season across the region. As good as the topsoil moisture is today, some of the rain came too late in the season to prevent production cuts. This is especially true for far northern and especially northeastern Saskatchewan and well as northwestern Manitoba. In other areas, the rain came in time to bolster production for late planted canola, corn, soybeans and flax depending on the general condition of crops prior to the past week of rain. The most drought stressed crops may not be able to fully utilize the new found moisture, but those crops that were in fair to good conditions likely benefited most.

Tropical Storm Erin Forms West Of Cabo Verde Islands

Kansas City, August 11 (World Weather Inc.) – Tropical Storm Erin has formed over open water immediately west of the Cabo Verde Islands and it will move to the west for the next couple of days while slowly intensifying. The storm is expected to pass northeast of the Greater Antilles this weekend as a major hurricane. The system will turn to the west northwest as it becomes a hurricane and it is likely to pass between Bermuda and the U.S. Atlantic Coast during mid- to late-week next week. The storm will become very large and will have to be closely monitored as it moves over the western Atlantic close to North America and Bermuda.

Canada’s Prairies Will See Additional Relief From Dryness

Kansas City, August 8 (World Weather Inc.) – Canada’s Prairies entered a much-needed wet weather pattern during the past week. Disturbances brought waves of rain and thunderstorms to the region that helped improve the moisture profile for a large section of crop country. Rainfall was too light to fix drought that intensified in portions of Manitoba, northern and eastern Saskatchewan, and northwestern Alberta, but a little relief occurred briefly. Many crops in the driest areas were already lost to the drought or too far along to benefit much from the rain. However, canola was finishing the flowering stage and filling which is likely to lead into some better potential yields for some areas. Soybean, corn and flax will also experience some potential recovery especially with additional rain expected through the end of next week bringing more rain. Some of the greatest rainfall and most important relief to the prairies will occur today and Saturday favoring some of the driest areas in Saskatchewan and Manitoba where some improvement in soil moisture is likely.