With the humidity that most of the province has been seeing so far this summer, it's no surprise that we've seen a fair amount of hail claims throughout the first two months of summer.

President of the Canadian Crop Hail Association Rick Omelchenko says that just short of 3,200 hail claims have come in from the province, and it's because the storms seem to be changing a bit.

"The damages are ranging from really, really heavy to sharp little burn-offs that peter out pretty quick. We're used to rains from Alberta and Manitoba but that hasn't really happened these last few years, but what we have seen is that the storms are smaller, more severe, and they taper off really quickly."

Omelchenko said that compared to the two provinces beside us have faired very differently.

"Right now, Manitoba has had the tap turned off a bit and there are not that many claims. It started out fast a furious but it settled right down. Alberta claims are coming in rapidly, it seems like it's coming in from the west and moving into Saskatchewan, so the Alberta claims are up."

Crop adjusters are still out looking at damages from hail storms in July and will be for a while, and a major reason why is the fact that hail adjusters want to give the crops a chance to try and recover from the storm before they send insurance payouts. That said, they can't wait too long either.

"Time is restricted now for regrowth and recovery, or if the damage is going to get worse. We'll know that a little bit easier now than we did in July so we're able to make those fair assessments and we want to make sure we payout exactly what we need to payout. We don't want to jump the gun. Some deferrals are happening, but not many." 

The Canadian Crop Hail Association tries to get out to every claim with 14 days of it being made, but if you have not heard from your adjuster in at least a week, make sure you give them a call and try to get something set up once again.