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It has been miserable weather, but one positive is it revived my romaine lettuce. Yesterday I picked a ton of pretty high quality lettuce, very unusual for mid June. This cloudy, cool damp weather has been great for the cool season vegetables. Of course not great for the warm weather vegetables. My tomatoes are off to a slow start. I'm glad this pattern is finally ending. It's nice to still be getting the lettuce, but the warm weather vegetables obviously are the more important thing now. It's time to burn away the cold weather vegetables and get the warm weather vegetables going.

Yes and it's always the worst plants not the ones we want

especially ants, they are right outside my front door lol, if I get a food delivery I have to be at the door otherwise the ants attack it en masse.

Be careful what you wish for lol. I have seen such an overgrowth of vines (I wrote about it in the NW thread) that it's hard to open my front door or get into my mailbox. All of this happened in just 5 days. I'm going to be spraying defoliant this weekend.

heat index already 100F imby

Hopeful for at least some brightening if not breaks in the clouds later this afternoon. What a run of weather for mid June. https://www.meteo.psu.edu/ewall/PSUGOES_NE/loop60v.html

82/76

Bugs are thriving.

Wow Gaithersburg Airport reporting 84/82? That DP might be off but it's steamy for sure Oh and I gotta do some yardwork wheeeee!

Plants that are acclimated to this crap weather are exploding, as it warms up now Watch Out.

A nice steady “under the radar “ rain falling here again today . Doesn’t look like any sun unless it’s late day .

I'm surprised it grew so fast, it wasn't anything like this last Friday, can it really grow this fast in 5 days?

80/78 out in my neighborhood. Absolutely brutal

Unfortunately that's the stuff that's gonna thrive. So much of it is from tropical/semi-tropical parts of the world and it loves the heat and humidity. Shit, the knotweed is already 10 feet high When that stuff does well it steals moisture and nutrients from my food plants.

We really needed this heavy rain this morning..... we needed it so much that there are large vines in my mailbox and blocking my front door. Lovely. I'm going to be spraying defoliant all weekend.

you'd love the 101/45 of July 4, 2010 a lot more and so would our power grid.

Erick is really looking good. Recon will be interesting.

some of this crappy overgrowth needs to die.

It was already much drier in 2012. You are forgetting hunga tonga.

Our July/August core summer weather is now startingly similar to miami's. The total lack of lows in the 60s in startling. Mornings are no longer refreshing, its just gross 24/7 during these months.

Glad we mini split after looking at next weeks modeled temps.

I'm not sure how we'd live if we had another year that dry.

Yes, I think we're reaching a tipping point where eventually those records will be broken, even if the years are wetter. Probably for the coastal areas too.

https://www.weather.gov/media/okx/Climate/CentralPark/monthlyannualprecip.pdf Good reference

That was quite an achievement during the 2010-2013 era (JFK's last time was 2013), we had drier Julys back then, Tony.