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Sat Jul 10, 2021 1:56 pm

Barely a spit of rain here from Ella but 25C/ 77 F and humidex 32C/ 90 F today. Gusty winds. Envcan forecast gusting 70 kph which is pretty ordinary for us (maybe twice a week on average) and reported gusts in the 60's (42 mph) but I was just out putting a little extra strapping on my latest trellis and it was well over 70 gusting here. I would say 80-90 kph. Trellis tester.
No tomatoes needing to have their blossoms buzzed or shooken this day. Only one greenie hit the ground so far though. ;)
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Sat Jul 10, 2021 3:03 pm

Just been reading about the weather all along the West coast of USA and up to canada. That looks hellish, stay safe everyone!
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Sun Jul 11, 2021 9:39 am

Like I said a good year for spiders.
Can't walk anywhere without running into one.
Frogs and toads too.
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Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:35 am

Amateurinawe wrote: Sat Jul 10, 2021 3:03 pm Just been reading about the weather all along the West coast of USA and up to canada. That looks hellish, stay safe everyone!
Looks like Death Valley almost tied the world record this weekend...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topst ... ar-AAM2aOv
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Mon Jul 12, 2021 12:21 pm

No rain over here, and it hasn't hit 90° yet (86°, but it will get there again), but at 11:30 the dew point was 76°, so it might as well have been raining! It is disgusting out there! When I went to Aldi's at 9:00, it was 82°, and the dew was still on the grass, but not the cars. I am not spending much time out there at a time!
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Mon Jul 12, 2021 3:36 pm

wetter

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Mon Jul 12, 2021 7:05 pm

The rain seemed to be skipping me again, but it finally rained...HARD! I was out there for a long while, and kept hearing thunder N and W of here, but at 6:50, I quickly came inside, as I saw lighting. Still, the only rain wasn't enough to wet the leaves or sidewalks, but around 7:25, it started coming down hard, and now, in a half an hour, it is up to .81", and still coming down!
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Tue Jul 13, 2021 1:27 am

Still wet with water standing in places. No 100 degree days in this part of Texas yet, but the humidity has has been making up for that. This has been a weird year for weather and even plant growth.

Worth, you wrote about the spiders. Here it's some odd brown crickets. We've had black crickets for my half a century+, but brown crickets? They seem to like being inside our homes more than outside.
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Wed Jul 14, 2021 12:09 pm

It's rat season here, again. Lost my 1st 2 tomatoes to them but not the SOTW which was just beginning to blush. It's in the kitchen now.
Every time we get a dry summer we get more rats.

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Wed Jul 14, 2021 12:15 pm

Salt are they big brown crickets?
Sometimes they come up from the sewer.
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Wed Jul 14, 2021 11:24 pm

worth1 wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 12:15 pm Salt are they big brown crickets?
Sometimes they come up from the sewer.
With as wet as it has been, it wouldn't surprise me. They are basically the same size as the black crickets I have seen in Texarkana, Galveston, El Paso, and everywhere in-between. What is odd is that I don't see them outside very much.
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Sun Jul 18, 2021 12:15 am

Temp dropped from 94° to 79°, and I got .20" of rain in about 15 minutes, around 3:30 pm. It stopped, but more is scheduled for later, even harder.

Later, it rained definitely harder, and closer! If anyone was asleep, they aren't any longer! It rained 5 until about 5:45 pm, then started again, around 8:30 pm; not as hard as that brief time earlier, but a lot more.

At nearly 1 am, it is up to 1.71", and still raining.
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Mon Jul 19, 2021 11:23 am

It had thunderstorm here at least once a day for the past month or so. Since January - June we've gotten 46 inches of rain which is about 12 inches more than average and we've barely begun hurricane season. I have basically gave up gardening, everything is taken over with disease and the weeds are going wild.
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Mon Jul 19, 2021 3:42 pm

Have to start growing rice instead of tomatoes here.
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Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:22 pm

Rain all the way home.
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Mon Jul 19, 2021 6:44 pm

Been very dry here, although humidity high, the ground is parched. I've had to water the garden every day as well as the tomatoes. Rain finally forecast for tomorrow with a chance of thunder. 2-4 mm is a very scanty bit of rain for how dry we are. 10 mm in thundershowers, well we can hope for that. If not, likely I'll have to water in spite of the 'chance of showers'.
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Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:24 pm

warm and dry.

mid to upper 80s. only rained once in about two weeks. we are watering every day.
the sky has been hazy from the forest fires in canada across the lake creating a murky
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Wed Jul 21, 2021 1:34 pm

We've had rain on seven of the last ten days, most all being late afternoon/early evening splash-n-dash type. But yesterday, between two red map areas that rolled over us, we got a combined 2". It's been almost impossible to get a good spray of Serenade put out without getting it washed off. Funk is popping up everywhere. Perhaps late today I'll be able to get some Daconil out.

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Wed Jul 21, 2021 2:24 pm

It started raining about when they said it would - 3 pm - but I think it stopped already. In just a little over 10 minutes it rained .22". There was thunder for about 30 minutes before, and it was black north of here, but only that little part nipped my area. I have a feeling they got some flooding up there! I'm still hearing thunder, and seeing lights flickering, and it's still dark up there.

Update: the second line of TSs came through about 4:15, and it was gone in about 15 minutes. Rain total up to .67" now.
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Wed Jul 21, 2021 9:35 pm

It has been a very dry hot summer. We are about 9 inches below normal for our precipitation. The past two days the air is foggy with smoke from the fires out west but it has been in the 70's so a nice reprieve from the heat. It even smells smoky. We are going back into the 90's for the weekend.
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