WinterWxLuvr

I would prefer a few sunny days at this point if anyone can make that happen.

This is always a cool time IMO. Right around Aug 5 the sun starts racing down. Once you get 45 days past solstice this happens, reverse in winter of course. There’s math involved in the explanation but to shorten it, the sun will now go down about a degree every three days where it was taking about 10. Does this until early November.

I’ve never seen anything “useful” about a three week forecast. A pattern recognition argument can be made for a forecast beyond ten days but even that is sketchy. I just can’t wrap my head around who the weather forecast a month in advance benefits. Christopher Newport on the Susan Constant? Spend the money and come up with a model that is superb at 7 days. Now that would be useful.

Yeah that seems like money well spent

I meant like at a farm coop. Maybe that’s what you meant too. But when I had mine tested they were able to tell me the exact amount of each nutrient it needed for grass growth, proper ph, etc. I was just thinking that as much rain as you had that it shouldn’t have been that hard to keep your grass green. Makes me think it needs to grow a better root system. Could be wrong but that would be my first attempt. Also do you aerify the soil each year. I always thought that I did all the right things with my grass but my first soil test showed me that my soil was highly deficient in some areas, most notably nitrogen. The puzzling thing for me about your situation was that it seemed like you got a lot of rain. But then again you say your soil drains really well. I guess you could make the big jump to a warm season grass but you’ll have a brown lawn from Oct to May.

Was thinking about your struggles to keep your grass going ... have you ever had your soil tested?

It definitely feels tropical out there. Was thinking I’m crazy but it smells tropical also.

If you just let the whole thing turn brown it doesn’t look too bad

4000 miles puts you on the other side of the globe. 70 north is about 2100 miles north of us

This weather sucks. Thank you and goodnight. Hope you all are doing ok and having some fun

It looks like the Mojave out here. We are burnt to a crisp

I’m confused by these posts with high dewpoints. DP here is 59 with a temp of 93. Humidity is at 32%. Even Dulles only has a DP of 66. Is there some boundary out there that I don’t know about?

Dude, for whatever reason that post has me envisioning you as Carl from Caddyshack

I actually lived in swva then. I was a high school teen and had my mind elsewhere. The only thing that stands out was the daily heat and sun and never any chance of rain. I think we were well within the heat bubble down there and those derechos only occurred around the periphery.

Sure illustrates the consistency of this streak when you see that average high.

I remember that 1980 heat wave like it was yesterday. I was a rising high school senior who made his pocket change like most did by mowing grass and doing other outdoor work. And then spent as much time as possible at the public pool. That heat wave was a beast. I also have vivid memories of the 1988 heat wave also. By then I was teaching and coaching and two a day football practice was quite an ordeal that August.

This is the worst of weather. We now enter the worst two months of the year. C’mon on back cutoff lows. Anything is better.

Who’s in for upper 70’s from now until September? C’mon, who’s in?

Talk to a landscape company. Let a professional advise you. Products from big box stores like Lowes aren’t likely to be of much help.

Today is the first day in the past nine that KOKV has reached 80 degrees. There have been 12 days this month that we have stayed under 80. Not a bad June.

I’m over this whole rain thing. Don’t need my landscape to look like something from the Amazon rain forest.

95-96 coming

Screams sliders and suppression lol. Trough axis is too far east. But I’m sure we can get some wind out of it.

Is that the storm that postponed a game of the Orioles-Pirates series?

The worst weather