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We had inquired with the techs about high temperatures last year and were told things were fine. But the overnight lows have definitely stood out the last couple of weeks. Unless they hit it between obs, PWM has been 80+ all night. That's not normal.

We're a top 5 warm July right now, I would definitely like to know things aren't just out of calibration. Kind of like when CON seemed to be running hot a couple years ago.

Was looking into PWM because overnight lows have seemed to be running high. And while that has definitely been the case in the last few weeks, what the hell happened in September 2019 with daytime temps?

I always seem to struggle at that course. I used always park my first tee shot into the backyards right, but now my hook really gets me into trouble all over the place. I think last time I played there I couldn't hold the greens. If you hit the middle it would roll off every time.

I was afraid someone would say that.

@tamarack any tips for trying to transplant it somewhere it'll do better? I feel like trying to save it is better than just ripping it out of the dripline of the house.

Found this growing behind some old pallets on the side of my house. Looks like white ash to me. Hard to figure out how it got there unless the other trees on the property are also white ash.

That's the key, you have to be in the fairway otherwise you are giving up too much distance to be consistently worth it to lay up. It also helps to know your course. If I'm unfamiliar I'm way more likely to grab a hybrid off the tee if it's tight or short. When I read the book by the inventor of strokes gained my eyes were really opened about the game in general and how to improve your score. More or less amateurs aren't consistent enough reap the benefits of laying up, so you are almost always better off being closer to the hole in the rough than farther and in the fairway. Honestly freed me up a bit.

Was taking a walk today with my son and confirmed that the next street over definitely has white ash planted as a street tree, but definitely a more dry environment there than what's in my backyard. I did plant a couple rhododendron viscosum (lemon drop) along the edge though to try and beautify things for next spring.

I know I adapted quite nicely when I lived out there.

Yeah it's pretty nasty. I cut it back late winter, but the puckerbrush is spilling over some of the alder branches to form a nice wall.

I was thinking hickory as a possibility too, but I'm trying to remember what its flowers looked like in the spring. I guess I don't take enough pictures of my yard.

Watch it not even be ash.

Looks like I need to figure out how many leaflets per leaf.

Probably the closest looking leaves that I've found so far. The (alleged) ash on my back property line is at least 30 ft tall. So it's a healthy tree and I would love to know for sure what it is. My main goal is to find something to replace all the jewelweed that grows in there. I want to go native like cardinal flower.

I've been using iSeek but I may try that one too.

I'm trying to ID what's in my bottomland/swampy area first to see what I want to keep, and second to see what might match well with it for planting. So far I think I've got smooth alder (my best guess because their leaves are not as serrated as other species, have a ton of this), southern arrowwood (I can only find one of these), there is a type of willow but I have yet to pin down the species (more of a shrub than a tree at this point). All make sense for a wet area. I'm pretty sure about 25 yard back in the thicket is an ash tree. I would love to figure out which type (especially if I can do anything to keep the EAB away). I'll probably have to wait until fall to get back in there though and ID some of the trees on the back edge of the property. It's just too thick for me to get through currently.

Probably going to get clipped by a midnight low tonight, but so far the low is 77 and would be a new record.

Ditto for PWM unless they slipped to 76 at one point. Heavy, heavy install.

I have CON at 74. Going to be toasty at 2 am.

I'm guessing if you check after a string of near 70 lows then it will be near #1, but overall this week has been pretty normal up until these last 48 hours.

You know how it goes, top 5-10 is really 10-15. BTV and CAR have been hot but so far running 3rd hottest at both.

ASH hitting heat advisory criteria before just about everyone in the region.

It's a pretty common rule of thumb for high temps on well mixed days (which can go awry with high dews at times). Add 10 degrees to your 10 AM temp and that's approximately your expected high.

Time to go back and recalculate what I could've been. Edit: Looks like I was TOO consistent. New method only drops my best run to 9.5.