What's the weather like where you are?

[PinkPetalPolygon]

Omg. I uhm. I wrote the following before reading anyone else's posts, and had I read how awfully cold it was on the east coast currently I am not sure I could have been so having-a-parade joyous!?!?


!!!

Today is my "hot day"!

I always think I should write stuff down, my gardening partner always says that too! The feeling is wearing off on me. Then I think, "Hey, I could always go look on HG to see what happened when!" - this is becoming a walking diary. Yay! Thank you!

Anyway, this is my hot day. I scan my forecast constantly as any devoted Gardner does, and when a heat spike is on the horizon I make sure my garden partner (her name is Sue) is really aware so we don't/can't fry our plants or ourselves.

The forecast says.... hold me now... (in a bath of ice!)...

95 degrees. !!!!!! !!!!! !!!!!!

& tomorrow says it will be 97.

& Spring just died a little for me.

We are supposed to go back to the high 70s/ low 80s after this spike, but oh my gosh.

Now I know the state of the nation, all I have to say is "WOW!"

I would gladly give you lovely east coasters 20 of my degrees from today so we could both be normal! <3

But since I cannot do that, I will just harness the California sun to ripen tomatoes and peppers in your honors. And pray us west coasters don't get scorched too bad either.

I'm ready.

Omg it's the cold you can't get ready for, huh, sans blankets! >_<

I guess at a certain point a baby plant would need a blanket from the sun too. None of my plants are babies now though because I jumped the gun on purpose this year so the "Spring" sun couldn't jump me with fire on my babies like it did last year.

It feels good to be ready for the first 100-ish degree days after getting burnt outta town last year. (Well. Only my cucumbers HATED it and I lost a few last year, but I definitely saw the whole garden struggle with the 90 degree temps.)

Last year was my first full garden, it is so satisfying to change your tactics, like to literally see conditions and adapt to them. (Like what I did by starting 2-3 months earlier this year. Nothing burned. And now everything big enough so they won't burn on the first hot day, they'll utilize it.)

I <3 my Mediterranean climate. Even if it threatens me with desert conditions here & there.

I am sorry that starting a month late because it's still too cold is not much of an adaptation to have. <3.

Okay, forget it. *wills the heat to the other side of my continent*

Now I can say I really tried!!! <3.

[imafan26]

Just had a morning sprinkle and it is 71 degrees now. It's a little breezy and it looks like there are few showers scattered offshore so there may be more sprinkles later. It will probably get into the mid 80's today. Nights are still on the cool side around 68 degrees.

[Lindsaylew82]

The wheat came in with the straw mulch. Maybe, you can just turn it over ...

We've started. It's daunting, but not as daunting as pulling it all out! Whew! It'll have to be turned several times. Heavily seeded!

Gravel... My neighbors have gravel as mulch in their front yard beds. It's decorative and intentional, but I wish they'd stain it or something. It's just cheap driveway/construction grade gravel. Our garden in PA was up in the mountains and we had lots of big rocks and small gravel! That stuff is WAY more challenging than volunteer wheat!

ETA: it stopped raining for a minute!!!

[applestar]

Officially, it's gone down to 43°F and I left my oldest tomatoes and one eggplant out on the patio. It's a couple of degrees warmer than the official temp, but still colder than they can take without stressing. 5 AM now so am not wanting to go out in the dark and bring them inside for just a couple of hours. I think I'm going to let them suffer.... Well maybe I'll go rescue the eggplant.

[digitS']

It's 38°f at 3:30 in one garden.

Or, about 2 miles away, at the Weather Underground volunteer's thermometer ... The Weather Service shows 41° just a little further away but when I click that name it shows May 19th numbers. The 41° is there with the WS's location list. Obviously, there is some kind of glitch.

Stress? Yes, even the eggplant is out there in that garden. Will running the sprinklers lower the stress? Probably not but it should save some plants from the frost if, indeed, that is what will occur.

Dewpoint is shown as 40° so fog setting in if a welcome possibility.

Now comes the moment of thought while I decide if that temperature suggests a frost by 5 and, therefore, the need to climb in the pickup and get out there to turn the sprinklers on. The last few days, the thermometer has fallen 3° or 4° between 3am and sunrise but morning temperatures were in the 50's.

Steve

[Lindsaylew82]

Woooooooo Steve!

That's stressful stuff!!!

It's 7:20! Hope you didn't get a frost.

It's raining here. 3rd day. Not the pouring down kind, the constant misting with intermittent downpours. The kind that promotes disease and depression. It's fairly cool here as well. On a good note, I'm glad I'm not our watering the corn seeds!

[digitS']

One hour later and the temperatures at both locations ..

. had gone UP 1° !

Moving in the right direction and we are now officially at sunrise, although there is no level horizon.

Steve

[PinkPetalPolygon]

Meep! I was going to say today was my rainy day, right?!

Then it started hailing. I never really want a haily day.

Thankfully the hail stones were pretty small, knock on wood!!, but

That isn't the greatest thing to watch, is it!? Your babies getting pelted!?!
And you not knowing how big the stones are gonna get!?

I live in a warmer climate and we rarely get hail so a part of me has always been really amused when the rain turns to ice? (It doesn't snow here at all or hasn't in my lifetime which was a blink, but anyway, hah)

I don't even think I have ever seen sleet or rain turning to ice in the sky where I live? So hail is something very interesting to me, especially the part where uhm it's ice from the sky but it's 69 degrees outside, huh!?

And then the ice disappears of course.

I remember my friends when I was a kid asking each other if they had "seen the hail" like it was a unicorn or a lucky clover, hah.

But I never watched a hail storm with a full garden.

I dunno if any of you are into horror films, haha, but there is a part in this one movie (that I don't particularly recommend) that I'll go ahead and sort of spoil without naming so it isn't spoiled:

In it, Stephen King plays a farmer whose farm and whose self gets infected with invasive alien vegetation.

When he first realizes the extent of his devastation, he opens the door of his farm house and looks over his fields that are writhing with alien stuff and he screams, "No, no, no!" Repeatedly.

Omg, that was totally me with the hail, I swear.

At first I was halfheartedly watching the *rain*, then as soon as it turned to hail / ice

Oh dear
I read a news article that a place 50 miles away from me had gotten baseball sized hail stones within the last couple of days

And I started laughing hysterically imagining the possibility of much larger stones falling (which is generally possible )
And channeling Farmer Stephen King
And trying to see if there was anything I wanted to pull out the of the hail

But I was just mostly laughing. I decided not to do anything but squawk, and the hail passed.

"Not hail!"

[Lindsaylew82]

It's raining.... Still! The pouring kind! Everything is cracking!!!

[KeyWee]

I usually don't post here in the weather-related thread, but WHAT is UP?!?! We always have the most normal spring known to man. Starts faithfully ON the first day of spring, warm temps, everything growing. This year, we have had everything from tornadoes to late frost, rain and more rain. While I realize there is nothing I can do, I am sick and tired of winter clothes and wondering what to do with a closet full of shorts and tank tops. On a positive note, plants that are normally stressed from lack of water are full and lush and good to look at. Holding out for ANY temp over 70 degrees, please.

[applestar]

I feel you.

We seem to get the remnants of what you get -- so not AS severe -- but looking at rain for later today and tomorrow...which on the whole will be welcome. Hoping to get some things planted in the morning before the huge green and yellow blob on the weather map sweeps in.

[imafan26]

O.k. to make you guys sort of jealous. It is nice for me, 71 degrees now and probably got down to around 69 last night and will get up to 82 degrees and breezy. The only cloud in the sky is the big one covering up the sun and most of the blue and it has been sprinkling occasionally heavy sprinkles for almost a week with more in the forecast. Most of it is falling on the windward side, but I do get some drift. The rain is late for this time of year, but it is better than none. Unfortunately it is not enough to water the garden, just enough to help the weeds grow.

[applestar]

It did it again! I've been waiting for the temperatures to settle above 50°F for overnight low. for 70's/50's before sending all my container subtropicals (and really most of my seedlings ) to go outside for the season -- avo, mango, overwintered fruiting peppers, eggplants, ginger turmeric, Arabian jasmine....

It's been mostly 60's/40's -- occasional favorable weather but low 40's even upper 30's looming in the near future making it impossible to plan the mass exodus. Now today we have the kind of day I've been waiting for, then it's gonna jump to high 80's/60's, even 90's/70's for the foreseeable future.

Now I have to scramble to get everybody moved out so I can turn off all these heat generating plant lights, draw the curtains and blinds, and keep the house cool(er).

[rainbowgardener]

Forecast for today and the next week:

88/61, 89/64, 89/65, 89/64, 89/64, 89/63 , 89/65, 88/65. That takes us to 5/31 and 5/31 is the first day there is ANY rain in the forecast! For a place that gets 50" of rain a year, that's pretty amazing, since it's already been a few days without rain.

I am thinking I may need rain barrels after all!

But it is beautiful weather! There's always a breeze here, humidity is staying low, so the difference between sun and shade is remarkable. 89 deg in the full sun is very hot. 89 degrees in the breezy shade is SO pleasant!

[imafan26]

It is 66 degrees now with an expected high of 85, but not much wind right now at 3 mph. It looks like a good day to work outside.
My rain barrels are full, I need to empty them out some.

[digitS']

After LOTS (1") of rain over the weekend: It was only 56°f, yesterday afternoon!

I think that the gardens are okay. It's been a month since such a cool afternoon. A month since the last frost. That was really early but it had better be the last frost. Every variety of plant is now out in the gardens!

I kind of shiver to think what the soil temperature must be ... Oh Heavens! The sun just came out!

Steve

[PinkPetalPolygon]

Down down down, in a ring of fire...!

Oh goodness. They finally gave it to me.

"They" were telling me a few hours ago, that next Monday was going to be 97 degrees? Now "they're" saying 101.

The digits 100 made me feel a strange feeling in my stomach. I didn't know 1 more digit could feel so significant.

What I'm trying to say is that I wasn't expecting the first 100+ forecast to feel as powerful as it did.

Hey, it feels like energy is raining from the sky because there is energy raining from the sky from the sun, huh!? That is what it felt like it my stomach, like I was learning a sunlight storm was coming.

We are forecasted highs of 82 today, then 92, 94, 96, 101, 99, 92, 90.

I understand forecasts could be wrong (I'm sort of hoping they are wrong and it's 80 the whole time and I'm squawking for nothing!?)

But suffice to say I think I'm in for a heat wave. Hopefully it's for everybody! (But I don't want your babies to get fried either!!)

I'm sooooo happy I have no babies/anything too young that's going to be threatened by the heat. I have googled "when does summer begin" a few times over and I keep forgetting because I'm not sure the June date applies to my climate.

May 15 always felt like the beginning of summer where I live to the extent I never wondered when its official beginning was? But I'm getting to know the rest of the country too by reading this forum and gardening advice in general, it's enlightening.

[rainbowgardener]

It was 90 degrees outside today and 86 degrees inside our house this afternoon! Fortunately nights are still cool, low 60's, so the house is cool when we wake up.

[Lindsaylew82]

Rain rain rain for 5 straight days, and then nothing this whole week! I'm gonna start an ugly tomato contest thread! And I'm prolly gonna win!

[PinkPetalPolygon]

Oh goodness. It is sunstorming somethin' fierce. Let me tell you. Worse than I thought.

Today's high temperature is supposed to be 103. Tomorrow 100, then 101, 105, 106, & finally a 97.

Can you believe that noise!?

I was checking on my garden this morning at 10 AM and it was already 82 degrees. It felt absolutely threatening due to the fact it was still kind of morning?

I gotta go whip up some cold unsweetened beverages for the fridge.

Yesterday was 100-ish too I think? Or at least 95 degrees. I watered my garden well at 11 am and left it for the whole day. I was vaguely worried because I have tomatoes in relatively small containers (7 gallons) and it is my first year with them so I wasn't sure what to expect exactly as far as whether or not they would dry out in that time?

When I got home, I couldn't of been more pleasantly surprised.

Everything was a couple shades greener from all the bright sunshine !!!

It was amusing to of been more or less concerned beforehand to walk into a room/yard full of happy plants without any problems in the world.

"This is what you were worried about? Everything is much better than when you left it!"

Yay nature.

[rainbowgardener]

In the 90's every day until 6/5 and no rain until then either. For here this is global warming level of heat and drought.

But I still love it here. There is so little humidity. It means that it is fierce hot if you are in the direct Southern sun, but as soon as you move in to the shade it is cool, pleasant, breezy. Everyone here complains about the heat and humidity. Maybe July and August are like that, I don't know yet. Or maybe they just never lived in the Ohio River Valley!

[Lindsaylew82]

Hot hot HOT! And just enough little rains to make everything just right for early blight. It rained everyday for the last 5 days, and I still need to water!

[imafan26]

Overcast nd looking like its going to rain, but it might just be teasing. At least there is a breeze. It is 75 degrees now. It looks darker than it should be.

[lakngulf]

Hot. Make that Hot and Dry

[Lindsaylew82]

Supah hot!

Chanting, "Please don't get sun scald!!!"

[Lindsaylew82]

Well, we've had no noteworthy rainfall in the last week. Just enough to wet the top inch or so of soil.... So I watered this morning. Deeply.

Went to my nephew's birthday party this afternoon and drove home in THIS:


Bring on the cracks! It went on like this for over an hour. Flooding the roads... Came home to 4" of water accumulation in the low gullies between my rows!

Oh well! The fruit trees needed that!

[gumbo2176]

Going to be in the 90's from now until mid to late September with high humidity and that usually brings enough fungal issues to the garden to make it not worth keeping up with. My tomato plants are already starting to have problems and may not make it to their usual mid July termination date.

My garden in the mid to late summer is usually reduced to hot peppers, okra, eggplant and cucumbers.

[gumbo2176]

Well, we've had no noteworthy rainfall in the last week. Just enough to wet the top inch or so of soil.... So I watered this morning. Deeply.

Went to my nephew's birthday party this afternoon and drove home in THIS:


Bring on the cracks! It went on like this for over an hour. Flooding the roads... Came home to 4" of water accumulation in the low gullies between my rows!

Oh well! The fruit trees needed that!

Several times the past 3 weeks have seen enough rainfall to float a canoe between my rows. The cucumbers are loving it, but my tomato plants are having fungal issues and won't be around much longer. Such is the life of a gardener.

Well, the lawn is loving it and needing cutting at an alarming rate. If this keeps up, I'll be cutting grass 5 times a month to keep from making it a real chore.

[applestar]

Lindsay, THAT is the only way to get Mother Nature to spare us some water around here -- water deeply from the faucet. It must be like a sacrificial offering or something. My kids joke that I can control the weather. "Mama, did you water this morning?" "Yes I did, Sweetie." "Well then, it's going to rain for sure." Or... "DON'T water tomorrow morning, PLEASE?" "...but the garden needs to be watered..." "We are going fishing tomorrow. It'll rain if you water."

The other one is: "Mama, did you catch slugs this morning?" "Yes I did, Honey." "How many? Lots?" "Well, quite a few... I didn't count." "Did it start raining?" "...yes..."

[Lindsaylew82]

Lindsay, THAT is the only way to get Mother Nature to spare us some water around here -- water deeply from the faucet. It must be like a sacrificial offering or something. My kids joke that I can control the weather. "Mama, did you water this morning?" "Yes I did, Sweetie." "Well then, it's going to rain for sure." Or... "DON'T water tomorrow morning, PLEASE?" "...but the garden needs to be watered..." "We are going fishing tomorrow. It'll rain if you water."

The other one is: "Mama, did you catch slugs this morning?" "Yes I did, Honey." "How many? Lots?" "Well, quite a few... I didn't count." "Did it start raining?" "...yes..."

Another sure fire rain maker? When I spray. Last night I sprayed baking soda and neem oil on the peaches, nectarines, squash and Cukes, and the lower branches of tomatoes. QThere was a 10% chance of rain last night. Woke up to puddles in the driveway this morning.

Gumbo, I'm considering pulling Yellow Brandywine. Blight is here. Septoria is here (VERY EARLY!!!), and one of my plants has fusarium wilt. Can't get a treatment in without a good rain taking it right back off.

[digitS']

It was 95ºf officially yesterday and a record set in 1882 fell!

At 2pm this afternoon, the thermometer already recorded a 93º with 98º, predicted!

The temperature was 64º this morning and we headed off for a weeding expedition. After several hours, it became obvious that the choice was at even odds between kill the weed or kill the weeder ... and, we escaped back to an air condition indoors!

One more day of this and the early June hot air mass is supposed to move east, over the Rocky Mountains.

Steve
yes, you read that right: the temperature is dropping 30º, overnight

[digitS']

Temperatures in the 90's on

• June 4
  June 5
  June 6
  June 7

Forecast high for

• June 10: 56°f

Steve

[applestar]

We did this before -- post your current sunrise - sunset times if you want to compare

15 hrs.

[applestar]

Crazy weather you got there digitS. Your plants are going to be so confused!


...no rain here. I've been watering the back yard veggie garden beds but haven't watered the front lawn. I've been transitioning our front lawn from the original/typical cookie cutter suburban Kentucky blue and fescue and "whatnot" lawn grass to native buffalo grass so the lawn can take quite a bit of drought.

However, I just noticed my circle bed of Jerusalem artichokes out front are all droopy and wilting. (Silverlining -- at least this will keep them in check since I didn't get around to harvesting last fall....)

[Lindsaylew82]

It's sooooo hot. HOT hot. Tonight was a run night, and I almost never need to stop and walk, but the heat really got to me on the hills, and I walked a few times... I don't feel so bad about watering after tonight's run. It's just really hot.

And dry. I've been watering the veggie garden and the pots. The seedlings are really loving it! Rebel Yell has really taken off in the heat! It likes it!

I worry about the corn. It hasn't tassled yet, but we've seen 3 days in the upper 90's, and it's not even summer!

[applestar]

Ooh, I recognize the Weather Underground -- lemme see.... Here we go

That other one was Weatherbug

[Lindsaylew82]

Man! What I could do with an extra half hour of daylight!

[imafan26]

It is raining again. Brief, sometimes heavy showers. Enough to be annoying but mostly sunny in between. It is cool for me at night which is unusual for this time of the year. It is around 70 at night and 83 in the daytime. As long as the trades are turned on it isn't bad. Day length 13hrs 26 min. visible light 14 hrs 15 min.

[Lindsaylew82]

So....freakin....hot....

It's 98F and it's pure misery.

I can't even...

Oh mighty rain gods!!!

[Susan W]

It's summer here folks! 90+ is summer, a tad early. Clue is the CICADAS are buzzing in evening time.