Cold and wet triggers $21.5 million in insurance payments to farmers
July 22, 2009
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Tags: brrr, Canada, Canadian Wheat Board, chilly, climate, climate change, cold, cold July, cold summer, cool, cool summer, cool temperatures, farming, global cooling, Global Freeze, global freezing, global warming, Interlake, Manitoba, Prairie, temperature, temperatures, unusual cold, unusually cold, weather
Too wet, chilly to seed
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com
17 July 2009
Farmers get $21.5M in insurance payouts
Springtime flooding and cool, wet weather at planting time caused 420,000 acres of Manitoba farmland to go unseeded this year, triggering $21.5 million in insurance payments to farmers.
The provincial government is expected to announce today that grim economic hit from the bad weather.
Manitoba: Winter grips 90 per cent of north, migratory birds can’t breed
June 20, 2009
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Tags: arctic, brrr, Canada, chilly, Churchill, climate, climate change, cold, cold June, cold snowy conditions, cold summer, Environment Canada, global cooling, Global Freeze, global freezing, global warming, Hudson Bay, ice blanket, late spring, Manitoba, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Ontario, snow, snow cover, snowdrifts, snowfall, summer, temperature, temperatures, unseasonably cold weather, unusual cold, weather
Big chill in Churchill
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com
13/06/2009
Winter grips 90 per cent of north, migratory birds can’t breed
It is the winter that refuses to go away in northern Manitoba and most of the eastern Arctic.
Winter takes another swing: record lows set in province
February 28, 2009
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Winter takes another swing: record lows set in province
http://news.sympatico.msn.cbc.ca
26/02/2009
A cold snap that gripped Manitoba this week has pushed temperatures in some parts of the province into record-low territory.
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