Lacombe County invites you to a webinar on Climate Trends and their impact on farming, featuring Ralph Wright.
Ralph has managed Agriculture Forestry and Rural Economic Development’s (AFRED) meteorological network since 2003. Over the past 19-years his group has installed over 190 new weather stations across the agricultural areas in the province.
To insure the integrity and accessibility of this data they have built a robust data quality control system along with a public-facing website that serves both historic and near real-time weather data products and services to Albertans. Much of this work centered on the task of assembling all of Alberta’s meteorological data back as far as 1885.
Ralph has M.Sc. in soil physics from the University of Manitoba and a diploma in Watershed Management from Lethbridge Community College. He has worked extensively with meteorological data since 1993, producing several computer models, as well as many other products and services offered on AFRED’s Alberta Climate Information Service (ACIS) found at www.weatherdata.ca
Webinar overview
A look at normal monthly precipitation patterns 1990-2021
An overview of the 2022 growing season
2021 put into perspective back to 1902
Edmonton and Calgary yearly precipitation patterns and trends from 1885 to 2021
Maximum 60-day precipitation accumulations 1961 - 2018
Web demo:
a. Explore weather station data and dozens of derivatives up to the last hour from more than 450 stations across the province
b. How to get historical data for the township you live in back to 1961 and review trends and patterns
c. Where to find maps that describe climate and weather
d. Real time radar and storm tracking
e. Mobile website putting weather data and forecasts in the palm of your hand
f. Access and explore 30-year climate averages trends and patterns
g. Access and explore yearly climate averages trends and patterns
17 сен 2024
