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Wife: we should go to Palm Springs one day Me: we have Palm Springs at home babe

Idk yall, I may be out on this one. The HP to the north just doesn’t seem strong enough. It screams 5:1 ratio slop fest that melts on contact.

What a soaker this has turned out to be

I’m closing in on an inch if you can believe it, but I might be the luckiest backyard in 50 miles. Granite Falls got hit by two tiny thundershowers that dumped for about 20 min each + everything in between.

Dumping. Praise the lord! .

It used to be a near guarantee this time of year to have 2-3 cutoff ULL’s get trapped in the southeast and produce a week straight of light rain and cool weather.

This was a really interesting seasonal update. Would love to know their thinking for such a small max in the Apps, lee and piedmont regions, but I assume they’re counting on a lot of diurnal convection and high elevation initiation. Sign me up. Other than snow, nothing beats a 90° day getting its knees taken out by some drifters off the mountains, leading to a nice rain cooled 75° evening on the porch. .

I get a feeling when we break out of this, we’ll do the polar opposite. Rainfall has been a case of too little or too much the past few years. It’s either bone dry or a flood risk. We really stink at doing it the old fashioned way by having that weekly type of event.

I don’t mean to brag but I recorded .11” of rainfall this morning. I’m now planning to get a lottery ticket when I’m out.

Has the triangle in the jackpot zone so I know that map ain’t accurate

Phase 8 will need to deliver the goods

It’s coming. It’s just a question of how much fescue you’ll lose between now and then.

It’ll break down Memorial Day weekend. Like clockwork, always does!!

Saw a lot of commentary online criticizing them for it too. People have no clue how hard it is to get any grass looking healthy in a drought with Georgia heat, let alone bentgrass greens. I agree, irrigation helps to a degree but it can’t replace the type of soaking that rain delivers.

I’ve went into my full July irrigation schedule here. Even with it, this is probably the worst the lawn has looked in April in years. I have Texas Bluegrass that spreads with rhizomes like Bermuda and its repairing ability has completely stalled out these past few weeks.