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The best weather week of the year occurring in August is a flex

Kudos to nogarbageatall!

It was probably a category 2 at NJ landfall based on the below report. https://riskandinsurance.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Swiss-Re_the_big_one_us_hurricane.pdf

No rain in sight other than the slight chance of a shower late tonight. It's nice that we're going to have a long stretch of beautiful weather, but the lack of rain is a concern. Parts of the area have moved into a moderate drought and it's only going to get worse over the next couple weeks. I hope we're not heading towards the same situation we had last fall with a severe drought.

It's been a long break up here. About a month long break. Summer is dead.

Cool and grey here with a breeze. 69F

YMMV but I think I may try winter seeding. I’ll spread some out where I want it right before the first snow that looks like will stick around for awhile. We can easily keep pack or glacier DJFM so I may be able to get away with that method.

there's no way 1821 was a 3 in nj

When is proper time to seed in fall?

Yeah agree. It’s the torch spots that need extra heat/drought resistance. The west side of my house bakes and goes dormant early every season. This year I have lespedeza rapidly spreading through the brown and it’s putting me on tilt. I don’t mind certain “weeds” and regular clover, but this crap chokes everything else out and has woody stems. I may have to try something to target it next spring before it spreads too far. Some of the seed you’re talking about may be an option as well.

It inevitably will get warmer after Labor Day, but for many or most of us, the average high will be in the low 80s by then. In September, you can be much above average in temperature, yet be below 90. Average highs are starting to plummet. The lower sun angle and shorter days make it harder to sustain big heat, although sporadic big heat obviously has happened in history.

85 and 86 the past 2 days..currently 81

Most of the trees and natives are done growing and are lignifying. They’re still photosynthesizing and putting that energy into the buds and root growth, but the top growth is about done. The transpiration demands are lessening as well with the lower sun angle and shorter days. That’s really all I’m talking about.

Id be shocked if Summer doesn't come back for a vengeance in Sept. This break is nice though.

The below normal dewpoints and dry conditions this month are helping the daily lows drive the cool departures for a change. Looks like a slightly cooler pattern will continue for the rest of the month. If we don’t see a reversal of this drier pattern, then there could be more 90° heat on tap in September since it would be easy to warm up with such a dry pattern once the ridge returns.

Add another tick and disease risk to the list https://www.boston.com/news/health/2025/08/22/yet-another-disease-carrying-tick-species-has-entered-mass/

Today will be the warmest and somewhat humid day for the rest of August. A couple showers are possible late today and tonight with a cold front. Here in East Nantmeal we could really use the rain as we are well on the way to finishing this August as the driest such month since I began keeping records in 2004. So far I have only measured a scant 0.19" in August. The previous low month was back in 2005 when only 1.24" fell. This next week may be one of the best weather weeks of the year! Autumnal weather with low humidity and unseasonably cool temperatures for the final week of August. Highs on Wednesday will struggle to escape the 60's for high temperatures across the higher ridge areas. Highs for the week will be mainly in the low to mid 70's with nights well down into the 50's with some 40's possible in valley locations.

Today will be the warmest and somewhat humid day for the rest of August. A couple showers are possible late today and tonight with a cold front. Here in East Nantmeal we could really use the rain as we are well on the way to finishing this August as the driest such month since I began keeping records in 2004. So far I have only measured a scant 0.19" in August. The previous low month was back in 2005 when only 1.24" fell. This next week may be one of the best weather weeks of the year! Autumnal weather with low humidity and unseasonably cool temperatures for the final week of August. Highs on Wednesday will struggle to escape the 60's for high temperatures across the higher ridge areas. Highs for the week will be mainly in the low to mid 70's with nights well down into the 50's with some 40's possible in valley locations.

Nothing lasts foreverAnd we both know hearts can changeAnd it's hard to hold a candleIn the cold November Rain. I'll start the November thread.

Ooof. Thinking dormancy on 8/24 is brutal. Not sure how you guys deal with that… I have many flowers that just started blooming again with the summer heat stress behind. Moving now to the second peak for garden scapes after summer heat stress and before first frost. The drought though is keeping the water bill up but at least it’s without the high energy bills. With how beautiful and AN our falls have been dormancy isn’t on my mind until mid November.

Some leaves falling off the trees in the breezier conditions. Too dry. Probably too late to save a good fall foliage display in SE NH.

Yeah it must be rough there with the SW facing hillside. At least dormancy is coming soon.

Made it all the way down to 49.6 here this morning. So close to the first 40s of the season.

Thanks. I missed it. My apologies.

So far in August I have had .007" of rain. In July I had 1.43" but it was all nickels and dimes with no one shower bringing more than .25". For June, I had a bit more than 3" but half of that was in the first week of the month. Our grass is brown and shrubs are wilting. Even lilacs. Lots of early leaf drop too. I'm glad we went into the summer with the water table being okay but the surface is amazingly dry. I think about farmers back in the day without deep wells and no way to irrigate crops. It must have been so scary back then, worrying about having enough food to last the winter.