Heat

[Complete Turf Care]

Dewpoint is down to 70* here this morning, which is still described as 'oppressive'. But it's a LOT better than 80*. I went unhook my trailer and didn't even break a sweat.

 

[jyoutz]

We’ve been getting crazy strong monsoon rains this summer. Torrential type rains for an hour or two. Yesterday/last night we totaled 2.8”, and 3.2” for the week. The prior 10 days we got over 4”, 3.4” at once. This has kept the temps down (cloud cover), and the grasses and weeds are almost out of control.

 

[EddieWalker]

Today is expected to be the third time this year we break 100F. This weekend it cools down for two days, where we are only in the low 90s. You cant imagine how bummed I am that I have Covid, and I wont be able to take advantage of the cool weather this weekend!!!!!

 

[deserteagle71]

We’ve been getting crazy strong monsoon rains this summer. Torrential type rains for an hour or two. Yesterday/last night we totaled 2.8”, and 3.2” for the week. The prior 10 days we got over 4”, 3.4” at once. This has kept the temps down (cloud cover), and the grasses and weeds are almost out of control.

I wish you'd share! Our winter and spring were much cooler and much wetter than normal. Then along about the 1st of June its like someone flipped a switch. Essentially zero precipitation since then with clear (or smoky) skies. And nearly every afternoon since then has been 100 degrees or hotter. Normally I have to mow my acres twice a year...once in June after the heavy spring growth, and again in October to catch all the weeds that sprang up over the summer. Not this year. The place still looks freshly mowed...it has been so dry and so hot that the ground is barren.

 

[jyoutz]

I wish you'd share! Our winter and spring were much cooler and much wetter than normal. Then along about the 1st of June its like someone flipped a switch. Essentially zero precipitation since then with clear (or smoky) skies. And nearly every afternoon since then has been 100 degrees or hotter. Normally I have to mow my acres twice a year...once in June after the heavy spring growth, and again in October to catch all the weeds that sprang up over the summer. Not this year. The place still looks freshly mowed...it has been so dry and so hot that the ground is barren.

The past couple of years we have seen a shift in monsoon weather patterns. Typically the Southwest July-October monsoons are driven by Pacific moisture coming from the Baja. We have now been getting systems from both Baja and the Gulf of Mexico.

 

[ericm979]

Here in central California we're seeing more moisture coming from storms in the Pacific. Not enough for rain, except maybe some localized thunderstorms in the Sierras, but enough to increase the amount of lightning. Most of CA doesn't get summer rain or lightning, so when we do get lightning it causes a lot of fires.

My local area has been having more temperature inversions each year. Twenty years ago it happened a couple times a summer. This summer it's been over half the days. When we get the inversion it does not cool down at night at our elevation.

One of the local wineries that's been here since the '70s has vinyards in the local mountains at various elevations. They had to harvest the highest one first this year, the opposite of normal, because of all the temperature inversion days.

 

[TractorTYMe]

I enjoy winter more and more the older I get, Montana is usually too hot in the summer anymore with gazillions of tourons trying to get flipped by bison in the Jellystone. Yesterday they took us off the Stage 1 fire restrictions (That has never happened before in August) So we've gotten enough moisture apparently? I'm still going to enjoy going back to the old country of Norway in mid August for a couple of weeks.

 

[jyoutz]

Here in central California we're seeing more moisture coming from storms in the Pacific. Not enough for rain, except maybe some localized thunderstorms in the Sierras, but enough to increase the amount of lightning. Most of CA doesn't get summer rain or lightning, so when we do get lightning it causes a lot of fires.

My local area has been having more temperature inversions each year. Twenty years ago it happened a couple times a summer. This summer it's been over half the days. When we get the inversion it does not cool down at night at our elevation.

One of the local wineries that's been here since the '70s has vinyards in the local mountains at various elevations. They had to harvest the highest one first this year, the opposite of normal, because of all the temperature inversion days.

We are actually seeing cooler July-September temperatures at elevations above 5,000’. Largely due to more summer cloud cover. The warmer Gulf of Mexico water is pushing more cloud cover deeper into the interior.

 

[Sigarms]

Always seems to be hot in NC for the summer vs what I remember for the North East, but after Debbie came through, at least everything has been watered very well.

This summer, last week, after some rain, finally mowed around the house completely for the first time in about 5 weeks (everything so dry).

Coming home from work yesterday though I had to take 4 different detours on the backroads because of downed trees...

 

[newbury]

Coming home from work yesterday though I had to take 4 different detours on the backroads because of downed trees...

Do you carry a chainsaw in your vehicle? I've a few areas in Northeast Mississippi that it's almost a necessity because they don't maintain the roadsides very well.