Talk:Osoyoos

message: Hi, I changed the climate data table to reflect the Environment Canada climate normals  for the most recent period available, but I see it has been reverted back.
Since Environment Canada has yet to release the "climate normals" for the period 1981 to 2010, it makes sense to me to use the 1971 to 2000 period. This is the standard way of posting climate normals for other Canadian cities, but obviously someone has taken the time to do their own research by combing through Environment Canada's database and calculating the normals for the period of 1990 to present (a non-standard time-frame by the way). 
I applaud someone for taking the time to do their own independent research (although I'm not sure that Wikipedia is the right place to post such findings), but wouldn't it make more sense to use the weather station with a longer record? The shorter time-frame would be less accurate. Not only that, they are using the temperature data from the period from 1990 to present and precipitation from 1971 to 2000, but I would think that it makes more sense to have all your averages reflect the same period of time. 
I'm going to update the table to reflect the climate normals as calculated by Environment Canada .  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tatlayoko (talk • contribs) 20:09, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for coming into the talk section. With all due respect, the 1971 to 2000 time period is considered the most recent climate normal period by Environment Canada (see the link: http://www.climate.weatheroffice.gc.ca/climate_normals/index_e.html). The Osoyoos West station goes right up until 2009, so when the new climate normals come out it will still have more data points that the Osoyoos CS station. When I have more time, I will provide further details on irregularities, but even without irregularities, the Osoyoos West station has more data, so it should be the one used. Cheers. “Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”  - James Baldwin (talk) 06:04, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

text: The most appropriate climatic data to use is the 1981-2010 dataset as per the link provided with the table. The CS station is lacking the 1980s data, and thus is not complete by WMO standards.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.50.233.155 (talk) 19:11, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate 

message: RE this edit, I'm darned sure, and it's burned into my eyeballs, that this is right by the hwy 3=hwy 97 intersection, which so far as I know is within the municipal boundary.....do you mean 3km from the beach strip?Skookum1 (talk) 05:14, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for discussing here. To verify claims made in articles, we can only cite published reliable sources, primary (the center) or secondary (a newspaper or magazine). Your personal experience doesn't match what the organization says about itself. See WP:42. If there's another independent published reliable source, we'll cite that. --Lexein (talk) 07:23, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: RE location of Desert Centre

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Although the fruit-growing possibilities were noticed by the early settlers, it was not until 1907 when the first commercial orchard in the area was established, growing cherries, apricots, peaches, plums, and apples. Osoyoos Orchard Limited was formed in 1920 and an irrigation project was planned which finally brought water to the west bench via “The Ditch” 
NEW////or " Canal" in 1927., by the Water Rights Branch of the British Columbia Department of Lands, the Southern Okanagan Lands Project was est. 1918 with the Soldiers Land Act. The Province bought 22,000 acres of land from the Southern Okanagan Land Company for the Soldier Settlement project. Established the townsite of Oliver, subdivision and sale or lease of lots in , and construction of an open canal for irrigation. The Oliver section was completed between 1918 and 1927. See BC Archives . Mostly volunteer work, by Osoyoos'es settlers extended the aqueduct father south through a system of ditches & tin lined wooden flumes, that needed a high level of constant maintenance till the late 60's when it was modernized( No photographs available online from the Osoyoos project yet. Link to 2 period photographs of building Kelowna's flumes). NEW END////
		
Although the fruit-growing possibilities were noticed by the early settlers, it was not until 1907 when the first commercial orchard in the area was established, growing cherries, apricots, peaches, plums, and apples. Osoyoos Orchard Limited was formed in 1920 and an irrigation project was planned which finally brought water to the west bench via “The Ditch” in 1927. The former shrub-steppe environment was transformed into a lush agricultural belt and Osoyoos promoted “the earliest fruit in Canada.”    20:07, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
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