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Post by reed on Jun 22, 2018 8:08:41 GMT -5
It's cooled of a little here, just high 80s to low 90s. Actually yesterday was only 82 and some clouds. Great show last night with intense lightening off to the north and west lighting up the clouds and lots of lightening bugs lighting up the trees at the same time, stars showing in between. Lightening was too far away to hear more than a faint rumble of thunder, no rain to speak of here.
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Post by reed on Jun 22, 2018 14:42:38 GMT -5
RAIN! real live rain. 1 1/2 inches in last forty minutes, slacking off now but still raining. Front edge had a little bit of icy stuff, too small to really be called hail and not much of it so doubt it hurt anything. Haven't been out yet to check for lodging on the corn, hope not. Temp fell from 85 to 64, feels great.
[add] Sun's back out, heating back up and yep, lodging, significant lodging. Crap.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jun 22, 2018 21:36:39 GMT -5
Sun's back out, heating back up and yep, lodging, significant lodging. Crap. In my fields, corn often stands itself back up in a couple days. |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jun 22, 2018 21:58:03 GMT -5
It's hot, arid, and sunny here during the day. Wanting a jacket at night. I've just finished harvest for farmer's market: Garlic, thyme, spearmint, sage, lavendar, oregano, parsley. I'm definitely hot and smelly!
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Post by richardw on Jun 24, 2018 14:48:17 GMT -5
Sun's back out, heating back up and yep, lodging, significant lodging. Crap. |
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Post by reed on Jun 25, 2018 5:51:32 GMT -5
I call it lodging when wind hits and leaves it anything other than vertical. In this case it was the whole range. Just a few on one outside row actually snapped but several were totally flat. If they are just leaning a little or even a lot they mostly stand back up on their own. I broke a couple more staking the worst ones back up. O'well some individual stalks and one particular variety were much less damaged so I know which seeds to favor next year.
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Post by mskrieger on Jun 25, 2018 14:04:17 GMT -5
We got about a half inch of rain yesterday in two thunderstorms, very welcome. Now it's dry and sunny and breezy again. I must say I like this dry sunny breezy weather with only the occasionally humid day that ends in a thunderstorm. The plants seem to like it too.
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Post by RpR on Jun 26, 2018 20:24:29 GMT -5
It has been well above normal a lot, many days in the nineties, and some days below normal but right now it is near average temps.
Fortunately even though we are below average for rain, it now has been raining a lot.
The heat was here before plants were really out of the ground so extreme heat caused no problems with early wet spells actually delaying planting.
As much as I loathe humidity the heat and humidity the past few weeks has been a boon for the garden.
With hell month coming, July, I wonder what is coming as weather forecasting has been worse than usual.
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Post by reed on Jun 27, 2018 1:50:12 GMT -5
We got little under 4 inches rain yesterday afternoon in span of about an hour. Washed most of the gravel off the county road back to our house but it's still travel-able. A low car might have a problem but our truck and jeep work alright. Haven't gone in the garden but it mostly looks fine other than a little more corn lodging. Supposed to have more storms in coming days and going back into the 90s. Very hot, very wet, my least favorite kind of weather.
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Post by richardw on Jul 6, 2018 15:11:15 GMT -5
Strong dry foehn wind has made for a very warm night with 15Cdeg being the low, should help keep the grass growing despite the frosts of a few days ago.
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Post by ferdzy on Jul 7, 2018 19:36:25 GMT -5
We got little under 4 inches rain yesterday afternoon in span of about an hour. Washed most of the gravel off the county road back to our house but it's still travel-able. A low car might have a problem but our truck and jeep work alright. Haven't gone in the garden but it mostly looks fine other than a little more corn lodging. Supposed to have more storms in coming days and going back into the 90s. Very hot, very wet, my least favorite kind of weather. Four inches rain at once! I don't think we've gotten four inches of rain this YEAR. Also it got down below 32°C (90ish°C) for the first time in a couple of weeks finally, but it looks like it's going right back up again in a couple of days. No rain in the forecast. We are spending an awful lot of time watering. |
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Post by reed on Jul 8, 2018 4:39:19 GMT -5
The other rains we were supposed to get didn't materialize. The 4 inches in an hour is all we have had since sometime in early May. It didn't really help that much coming so fast on our hilly terrain. Just all went down the creeks which are all dry again now. I'm also spending a lot of time watering, almost envy folks in normally dry areas. They are used to watering and are already set up for it. All we have is municipal water which can be banned for garden use any time they feel like it.
Yesterday I planted a small patch of corn. Here is my process, dig deep trenches, fill with water repeatedly till it slows down on soaking in, back fill with dry dirt, make rows and plant, water again. That will give it a fighting chance to get established and works well on small plantings, wouldn't want to try in on a big patch.
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Post by richardw on Jul 8, 2018 14:33:56 GMT -5
That's a huge dump of rain in such a short time, the most ive had here in one hour was half what you had reed
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Post by reed on Jul 9, 2018 5:25:52 GMT -5
That seems to be how it is here now. Dry, dry, dry, RAIN! then back to dry, dry, dry. I'v heard people calling it rain bombs, don't know if they heard that on TV or just made it up. Anyway, if one hits you get wet but they are small in the area they cover, one spot gets it and a few miles away nothing.
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Post by richardw on Jul 16, 2018 14:29:33 GMT -5
Having a patch of winter warmth over the last few days, still no signs of any nasty cold weather to come in the next ten days either.
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