How's your weather?

[bower]

Can't imagine how fast the ground dries out at RH 12%.
Even dropping into the 30% range here it's no time for the dryness to go deep.

Another day of high 70's here, around 79F, quite breezy though and I was able to get some garden things done in the earlier morning and afternoon without being eaten by blackflies. Eventually they got my number, so I gave it up.
Our forecast lows are in the 40's, except for tomorrow night dipping down to the 30's. So I've held off planting the tomatoes. I could and might decide to keep them in the greenhouse after all, but I really want to just plant them out and skip the moving of large plants in heavy containers. Only have 7 plants so I also figured give them bigger containers and reduce the watering demand. But I don't want the hassle of moving that, if possible. 45F doesn't sound too bad for a night?

[Whwoz]

Frosty here the last couple of mornings. We are getting glorious days following but starts below freezing are not welcome. Down to -1.4C/29.5 F this morning according to local BOM site, supposedly going to -2C /29F tomorrow, most likely lower here as we tend to be cooler than BOM site

[worth1]

Pretty nice.
Got all the doors and windows open to cool the house down with fans pumping air in.
It's down to 77F right now. Inside it was 82F.
Been getting a lot of rain too.

[karstopography]

Relatively cool here with all the rain.

Matagorda county near me had over 12” of rain today. We ended up with 3”.
A couple of small tornadoes did some minor damage in Wharton county to the west north west.

Looks like areas near San Antonio got hammered by rain. Unfortunately, some vehicles were swept off the road by high and fast water and several people perished.

More rain tomorrow.

[Danny]

No rain so far, just hot and sticky. Got some strawberries planted, a couple of blackberries in and reseeded where I *think* I put in 1 batch of beans that did not come up. A forty pound bag of cow compost gets heavy when it is wet.

No rain is currently predicted, so it time to break out the hose for watering. Going to be the high 80's to in the 90's this next week.

[Danny]

Looks like we are going into Dannys' summer routine time - earlier to bed, up earlier to get what needs doing for each day, retreat inside to avoid the higher heat and humidity. Getting too hot for this cranky old thing to be out in the afternoons if it can be avoided, higher 90's plus coming in daily. Plus the skeeters hearing the ring of the dinner bell at dusk seems worse up here, and they are hungry as hell.

Cloudy is predicted along with the higher temps, so a little blessing of sorts, but dry, no rain seems to be headed our way soon. So, it is break out the hose and water the plants early early early. Same with the rest of any outside chores to be done, plus a hat and sun protection.

Spring this year was great, so no complaints really, other than I am getting old and slow, but better than dead and still !!

[Tormato]

It either rains for 2-3 days with cool weather (not to my liking), or it is hot and dry. When it is dry, the air quality is very poor (Canadian wild fires again?). It has considerably slowed my recovery from the walking pneumonia.

It took me two weeks to set up poles and plant the pole beans, something that I've done in the past in 2, maybe 3, days.

[karstopography]

Bottom fell out like it does here. About 1.5” of rain fell in twenty or thirty minutes. Now it’s raining at a rate for what the most of the rest of the US is accustomed to, which seems like light rain to us.

[worth1]

I hear thunder.
We've had millions of tons of nitrogen infused rain all across the country from these lightning storms.
Everything that's supposed to be green is really green.

[worth1]

It's pouring down rain as we speak.

[bower]

Continuing warm and dry here with forecast highs in the 70's. Past couple of nights dropping to the low 40's or even 30's, a bit too risky for tomatoes.

[karstopography]

Extended forecasts all have variable between the forecasts and variable chances of rain for the foreseeable future, which evidently isn’t all that foreseeable. Next three months are supposed to be wetter and cooler hereabouts than the long term averages according to the weather.com website. The rest of the country excluding the Gulf of Mexico coast and Florida look to be warmer than the long term averages, especially the Northwest. https://weather.com/forecast/national/n ... -september

[JayneR13]

Rainy and getting more humid. Perfect for garden diseases! My garage is coming down tomorrow and they're supposed to pour the concrete for the new pad on Wednesday. Hopefully they'll be able to do that.

@karstopography It's true that weather isn't the easiest thing to forecast. The meteorologist who taught my Tornado Awareness weather spotter class said outright that forecasts for more than a few days were extremely unreliable. The further out the date, the less reliable the forecast. Evidently Mother Nature can be a bit mercurial.

[Danny]

Rained this morning, pretty good wetting down for a couple hours, so the hose is not out yet. Got more to do, but the rain was welcomed by myself as it just seems to be so good for the plants, plus a cooler than predicted afternoon with the house opened up and great smelling air exchanging. In the kiddie pool, about 1.5 inches of water was caught. The whole area is lush and verdantly green, so nice to the eyes.

Weather prediction Is a challenge, and even more so in the last few years. Patterns are not following as usual. But then, Mother Nature has always been such a flirt !