@rxkeith; haven't heard hide-ner-hair of a skeeter yet.

2020, first...um...blood was April 3rd!

The Gotch

How is my weather? Hot and humid as usual. Record highs and lows dated back to 1910 and earlier. Global normaling - lol.

Tomato weather at last.
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Dew points are way up there. We’ve had enough of a breeze off and clouds from the gulf to keep the temperatures from really soaring. I think Agatha from the Pacific basin now in the Atlantic basin sent her very humid breath our way. There’s a huge difference between dewpoints at 70° and 75°. I see NAS Corpus Christi currently has a dewpoint at 79°. Ours is 75°Most the eastern third of the state is 70° or above.

Good thing I have gills in addition to the typical lungs of most humans or otherwise I might be suffering.

Currently our dewpoint and temperature are neck and neck around 40 F. Very thick fog today, a real pea souper, gills would be a bargain. I was just out to rescue trays of seedlings that ended up standing in deep water after last nights thrashing rain, in spite of the 'shelter' I provided. A lone cherry tree that just arrived from PEI fully leafed and a bit buggy, is proving it likes cold rain better than a dry box. The problem is, it only gets worse. Highs of 43 F for the next two days, where the normal high would be around 57F. Winds will pick up from N and NW gusting over 40 mph. Quite a bit of more rain expected. Welcome June! The big score for us is that in spite of this chilling dripping mess, no frost expected. I'll take it!!

those 40 mph gusters hit us yesterday leaving 20 to 30 mph winds in its wake for the next three days.
that 84 we had for a high dropped 25 degrees. its staying cooler too. might get to 39 friday night.
plants took a thrashing, lost one pervaya lyubov for good, and a second bobbie snapped off near the base.
bobbie is in water for a couple days. root nubs are already on the stem so should recover fine.
i really hate the wind some times.


keith

It's been windy here, but nothing like that! Just enough to make it bearable out there, even that 96° high I had didn't keep me in, though I didn't stay out long! Didn't get to 90° today, and humidity wasn't bad, but it's up to nearly 100% now - it's cooler, but I'm not letting that soup in the house!

Lower dewpoints today, around 70° and an air temperature of 87° at 12:30. Isolated Showers in the area, but nothing here yet. North wind all day. Pretty standard early June weather for these parts.

Super humid today - felt worse at 83° than 96° a couple of days ago! A little before 7 pm the rain started, and I got over .25" in less than 15 minutes. It stayed for a while, but eventually stopped at about .65". Super humid now, of course, but it's supposed to lift for the next few days.

More distant thunder. Dog generally hears it before I do. Got less that 1/10” earlier in the afternoon with a little storm that just grazed us. Radar indicates this storm might hit us more squarely.

Its 105 here today with the average temperature over the next ten days predicted to be at 102-105. The only thing thriving in my garden is spider mites and russet mites. My 1 foot tall tomato starts are frying badly even in total shade outside. You know its bad when okra, zinnias, and eggplant wilt badly every afternoon despite lots of mulch and daily watering.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet ... sible-from

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/image ... haran-dust

Dust from the Sahara might be coming your way, depending on where you are. The dust does more than provide pretty sunsets, it alters the weather and fertilizes the Amazon and the ocean.

A MUCH WELCOMED 1 3/8"/3.5 cms of slow soaking rain today, which had the good grace to wait until I finished planting yesterday.

Temps a little on the cool side; far be it from me to complain about the weather...this time of year, leastways...

The Gotch

Temps here lucky to make 10C/50F and so far 110 mm/4.4 inches of rain for the month. Water lying in all the low spots and surface drains running. From the way some of the talk is cooler and wetter will be our normal now, apparently a lot to do with the Atlantic Ocean conveyor failing.

We're still dry. The forecasted rain they touted last night as coming in overnight ("possibly heavy rains in the area") never came. "Possible isolated showers today". I'll believe it when I see it.

Meanwhile they're forecasting 99's for next week with 107 heat factors. I hope they're as wrong about that as they are about the rain but probably not.

test..trouble with server?

Anyone else having trouble posting to some of the forums?

The Gotch

2.0" of rain overnight! Very humid yesterday, and starting today, but going down fast, and very windy, so the 82° isn't bad.

No, this time I am good so far.

Forecasts here have been especially unreliable the past week or so. Temperature expectations way off. Precip too.
However we are pretty contented to have a few warmer days even if they don't hit the highs. Back to a rain pattern tomorrow. And a light test of trellis braces.