How's your weather . .. 2018

[richardw]

That's what i like about here, low humidity is the norm during summer, do get the odd native mosquito and biting fly though, having short winters, long autumn and spring months is a plus too.

[reed]

We have had a period of nice weather last week and a half or so. Highs in low to mid 80s, low 60s at night. Very welcome after the hot dry of May, June and most of July. Also a little more rain, beans, tomatoes, melons all looking better. Pole beans were looking like near total failure with few blooms and fewer pods but they have really perked up with lots of flowers.

[mskrieger]

It's rained between 8 and 10 inches in the past 30 days here. Rain is nice, but there is such a thing as too much, and we definitely crossed that line. Fungal diseases have struck. Downy mildew and some leaf yellowing thing in the cucurbits, and cercospora on the beets (always present in my garden, but usually doesn't cause a big problem...it's gotten decidedly worse this past week or so.)

And all the rain has caused the cosmos to grow out of control. I like flowers and all that, but we have cosmos EVERYWHERE, huge, falling over, sprouting roots from the stems and then growing entirely new branches. Hedges of cosmos. I have to rip them out. Never seen anything like it.

[walt]

Jul 30, 2018 23:46:00 GMT -5 steev said:

I never paid attention to the sun's movement until I got the farm; there being no buildings' obstruction has really made me aware of its annual motion, quite striking.

One summer I lived in my greenhouse.  I became very aware of the moon's movement.
I could wake up in the night and look at the moon.  By seeing its shape, I could tell where the sun was.  From knowing where the sun was, I knew what time it was.
Of course, the nights I woke to storms were the real show.

[reed]

73 degrees right now. Sky is as clear as it gets, the row of trees west of the garden is silhouetted black against the sky and stars. The bowl of the big dipper just barely clears the tops of the trees about 20 degrees north of west. More directly north the whole sky from west to east, a terrific lightening storm is raging, too far away to hear the thunder. I guess it's below the horizon, and lights the sky from below.

I had to come in for a minute, wine glass being empty, and noticed I hadn't turned the computer off. That issue resolved, gotta get back too it.

[prairiegardens]

It's been unusually hot here for the past couple of days, 39 Celsius which is way over norm. We had torrential rains followed by hot windy days for about a week. For the past three days just very hot sun and a little wind, although oddly, the temps drop to norms of about 15 c at night. Watering everything daily if not twice, the wind just sucks moisture out of this sandy soil. Three more days of this horrible heat, gradually easing off into possible thunderstorms, forecast. Crops are ripening really fast, those a bit further behind starting to dry out. Sloughs were low at beginning of summer, then filled and are now entirely dry and cracked. A very unpredictable summer, setting all sorts of heat records around the province. I can't quite understand how it is SO hot during the day but drops so fast at night - although I'm thankful it does, at least sleep is possible!

[richardw]

The pine trees are shedding there pollen which is a month earlier than last year and two month earlier than it used to 20 years ago, and we still have 3 weeks of winter left.

[RpR]

We had a high of 87 F and a low 67.
Highs are not unusual but night time lows are higher than average most every night.
Doing great for the garden.
I did not do any real hard work today and I could feel it was not as humid as yesterday but I just had no gumption.
Rather odd as I was sweating to the point of water rolling off of my arms even not doing strenuous labor.
No real wind was probably the missing factor.
Even though the sun does not set till after 8:30 , the shorter days are really noticed now.

[philagardener]

Picked up 3.2 inches of rain this morning in a few hours after an already wet week. Tropical downpours!

I had a patch of Stowell's Evergreen corn just starting to shed pollen knocked completely flat. The clay in the bed was like a thick milkshake in consistency!    As the water drains away, I'm working to get it straightened up again.

[mskrieger]

ah, philagardener, I feel your pain. Although I have no corn and my soil is better draining. The past month of hot, wet weather has done really weird things to the garden. Fungus everywhere!

It's supposed to dry out on Wednesday and stay that way through Sunday. May it be so.

[RpR]

As much rain as we have had, we were several inches below average through spring, and have now just about caught up, some areas now are in danger of a tech. drought conditions.
I will run a sprinkler on the garden up here for the first time all year.
It was hot today , high in the nineties with humidity .
In the seventies tomorrow with predicted higher humidity.
My father did not put in an air conditioner till the seventies and I remember some summers with days like this but thankfully not near an entire summer.

[walt]

Lots of rain yesterday.  Bout time.

[reed]

Four inches of rain yesterday and more on the way today.

[mskrieger]

So, no, it didn't really dry out. And it's supposed to get good and wet again today and tomorrow. But looking at the long range forecast on the weather geek blogs, it's very likely to dry out and get into that nice late summer/early autumn pattern of lower humidity and cooler nights soon. And that would be a huge relief.

[richardw]

Had 10mm of rain yesterday which is the first rain for a month, winter is the wettest time of year but the last two months have seen 30mm, bit over an inch, June saw average rains though (54mm)