What is your weather like ... today

[CountryEscape]

Colleen, pretty pics, wish it was so green here. JW, I think you need to post some more green pics. Everything in the midwest is drying up with the lack of rain. Glad for the last couple of beautifully cool days, but now it's going to hammer us with heat. Oh well, such is life. It has to let go of some rain sooner or later. Farm reports say the corn is ok still, stressed, but not hurting, but it's all tasseling around here, so I don't know how they can say it's not hurting. I thought it has to rain after it tassels, or there won't be any kernels in the ears! I hope they are right, and the corn will make it through. Lack of rain makes the roots go deep, but OMG, I never heard of roots going 30-50" deep to find moisture like said in this thread in TX. Wow, that's something new! Soy beans are just not growing, but no harm to them, they can take the heat for a while yet before any damage to the crop. Pray for rain in the midwest, dry in the southeast, warmer in the north and northwest ... am I missing anyone?

 

[crsublette]

Not looking good for the midwest right now ....

Everything in the midwest is drying up with the lack of rain.

I feel ya ... on the sunnier side of it ...

My grain market advisor told me that the midwest weather is one force pushing the grain market up so well. Rising grain market and very low natural gas sure does help the farmers in my area survive the bad years a little better.

I hope the midwest gets better weather and rain, but also I kind of hope they don't get it so the grain market goes up ... i'm terrible. :twisted:

 

[CountryEscape]

Charles, everyone has to look out for #1, so I don't blame you for your wishes. I don't have any crops, so you don't hurt my feelings.

 

[crsublette]

Lack of rain makes the roots go deep, but OMG, I never heard of roots going 30-50" deep to find moisture like said in this thread in TX. Wow, that's something new! Soy beans are just not growing, but no harm to them, they can take the heat for a while yet before any damage to the crop.

One of the moisture profile systems, called AquaSpy, used in my area. A gypsum block system is used to monitor moisture profiles. Block sections of gypsum at every 12 inches that records soil moisture percentage as plant grows and shows when the sprinklers have passed by. We use center pivot circle irrigation. Where, with around about 500 gph system, takes around a 4 day circle to apply 1 inch of moisture on a field. The deepest the sensors typically go is 4 feet, but, when a rep was talking at a continuing education seminar, he mentioned they played around with sensors that went 5 feet deep and still noticed moisture depletion when the plant was needing it. Crazy, but 2011 was a bad year, crops were trying to survive.

When moisture is tough to come by ... then folk come up with all sorts of crazy systems around here. We have at least 3 soil moisture profile systems here. I don't use any of them since they cost a pretty penny, more than I care for. They're used to help farmers that farm according to a GPS Precision field methodology where water is only applied where it is needed and same with fertilizer and seed, but all of it depends on a bunch of guessing based on past field history. Heh, year 2011 screwed up all of their predictions since it was such of a bad year. I think these systems are more gimmicky than actually helpful ... just so they can maybe boost yield by 2% of course it all still depending on accurately predicting weather patterns. I don't have all the proper GPS systems to properly utilize Precision field planning and these systems are extremely expensive and proprietary.

 

[addy1]

My tiny, tiny, compared to farmers, corn field has died off the last two summers due to lack of moisture. It is struggling this year, unless we get some rain, it will most likely die off again. The only plants that get water is the veggie garden and the pond lol

 

[mtpond]

A windy and chilly 46 this morning. Reaching a high of 71 and mostly sunny today.

 

[callingcolleen1]

Good morning! Windy and 52 degrees. had big winds all night, closed all windows cause I was colder that usual, think I need some cod liver oil, not sunny enough these days, I would like to transport myself over to where it's hot and sunny and just lay there and bake! Sicamius BC is flooding, High Level Alberta (AB) is flooding, parts of Calgary AB have flood alerts, river here came up big time. Water from parts of British Colombia (BC) and upstream from here, Calgary and Lethbridge Alberta, all dump into South Saskatchewan river which runs threw town. Well see how high the river is today after work, when I take Poppy and Bear for there walk tonight.
Will pray for rain for you in the hot dry parts of the US. Its not fun to watch your crops die off, wells run dry. Wishing you a better day

 

[koiguy1969]

weve been hot and dry! kind of "droughtish" around here. lawns are looking like "amber waves of grain"!!....85* today, its a cool down. back in the upper 90s by friday!..

 

[ididntdoit99]

Current temp 95° humidity 42% and winds gusting to 30 mph.... if its going to be hot and humid with no rain, it might as well be calm wind so I can ride my bike in comfort without felling like im going to get blown off the road.

 

[ComputerGuy]

108

 

[sissy]

was cool here and supposed to get into the high 90's again and got part of my pond redone and then had to run to lowes to get downspout straps I forgot to get them and have my downspouts wired on the 6x6 post for my front porch .Got the gutters back help with some help .

 

[brandonsdad02]

103 here today and very, very, very dry. We need rain so bad. I have mowed my yard twice in June. The only thing getting watered is the pond and the plants around it. I had to top it off today. It was about 4" low and my stream pump was starting to suck air. I can hear it slurping so I know its time for water. Colorado needs rain the worst right now. Breaks my heart seeing those fires, but I know its a good thing too. All the houses getting destroyed isn't good, but it will provide so much new growth. I just wish there was a better way they could fight these fires. They need something they can shoot into the sky to make rain. I've seen something on tv a few years back where they did something similar to that, I think it was called seeding.

 

[taherrmann4]

While the fires are quite devastating it is natures way of cleaning up all the underbrush and many environments benefit from them as well as animals. Mother nature is going to do what mother nature wants...

 

[sissy]

the only thing is that they have made people leave there homes and I am sure that is there whole lives .Insurance can cover damages but not put peoples lives back together .A lot of memories could and are going up in flames

 

[j.w]

I feel so sorry for all you people w/ such horrid hot temps and it is sad to see on the news all the houses burning and lives upset by the fires. Hope no lives are lost as that is the most important thing.
Sounds like Colleen and I are about the only ones here w/ cool weather. But actually we had a sunny 70F day today and got my lawn mowed just in time for the mower to stop working. It needs a new spindle as the bearing's destroyed the old one so who knows how long it will be to get that on order.