cyclone77 Posted May 22, 2020 Share Posted May 22, 2020 Beautiful day, as temps made it to 72, with dews in the 50s. Had a decent amount of sun mixed in. Got a lot of trees trimmed up, and got everything mowed/trimmed before the next onslaught of May rains. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardypalmguy Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Tropical bed all planted. Soil temp 71.1F. Ready for summer. . 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mississaugasnow Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 9 minutes ago, hardypalmguy said: Tropical bed all planted. Soil temp 71.1F. Ready for summer. . Im currently waiting on my Musa Basjoo. Hopefully able to pick it up in a week or two and get them growing. I bought 3 gal ones. Kind of upset not able to get them until late May/Early June but considering it snowed last week here wasnt going to be able to do much with them anyways. How big do you think the 3 gallon ones will grow from June 15th to October? One is being planted in the ground and the other in a pot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Still in FL on vacation. Had another severe t’storm roll through this evening...the second one on this trip.. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LansingWeather Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 1 hour ago, hardypalmguy said: Tropical bed all planted. Soil temp 71.1F. Ready for summer. . wow nice! looks a bit like my backyard back home 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardypalmguy Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Im currently waiting on my Musa Basjoo. Hopefully able to pick it up in a week or two and get them growing. I bought 3 gal ones. Kind of upset not able to get them until late May/Early June but considering it snowed last week here wasnt going to be able to do much with them anyways. How big do you think the 3 gallon ones will grow from June 15th to October? One is being planted in the ground and the other in a pot. Should get 5-6 feet tall I think. I’m growing tall Orinoco and Thai black. The Thai black grow the fastest but are not hardy here. I dig up and put them in the greenhouse for winter. They are the tall ones in the middle. Love their blackish stems. Never had luck overwintering basjoo in the ground in Wisconsin so I stopped trying to grow them. . 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardypalmguy Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 wow nice! looks a bit like my backyard back homeThanks. Put a 1000 watt gutter heating cable in the ground this summer. That way I won’t get so mad when we get low 60s and overcast several days into June. . 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LansingWeather Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, hardypalmguy said: Thanks. Put a 1000 watt gutter heating cable in the ground this summer. That way I won’t get so mad when we get low 60s and overcast several days into June. . I find it very interesting you are able to grow those plants in this climate zone. Even in the summer. We get lows in Lansing in the Upper 40s in July some years and, to my knowledge, upper 40s is likely to kill those types of flora. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardypalmguy Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 I find it very interesting you are able to grow those plants in this climate zone. Even in the summer. We get lows in Lansing in the Upper 40s in July some years and, to my knowledge, upper 40s is likely to kill those types of flora.Yeah they don’t like cold feet and struggle in June most years. So I’m hoping the heating cable alleviates that. Soil temp over 70 with it already has me feeling pretty good. Here is the same bed on the day I took it down last October 7th. . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LansingWeather Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 40 minutes ago, hardypalmguy said: Yeah they don’t like cold feet and struggle in June most years. So I’m hoping the heating cable alleviates that. Soil temp over 70 with it already has me feeling pretty good. Here is the same bed on the day I took it down last October 7th. . Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanDe680 Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 9 hours ago, Chicago Storm said: Still in FL on vacation. Had another severe t’storm roll through this evening...the second one on this trip. . Driving down to FL sometime next week for x number of days too. Need a change of pace. I love severe afternoon storms in FL heat. I’m headed to Destin. Where is this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicago Storm Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Driving down to FL sometime next week for x number of days too. Need a change of pace. I love severe afternoon storms in FL heat. I’m headed to Destin. Where is this?St. Pete Beach.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 Is that 87F for ORD this hour legit? With SE winds no less? I don’t think they were even predicting them to get to 80F today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 11 minutes ago, wisconsinwx said: Is that 87F for ORD this hour legit? With SE winds no less? I don’t think they were even predicting them to get to 80F today. All the surrounding personal stations show upper 70s to low 80s. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted May 23, 2020 Author Share Posted May 23, 2020 3 hours ago, wisconsinwx said: Is that 87F for ORD this hour legit? With SE winds no less? I don’t think they were even predicting them to get to 80F today. 87 is what went into the climate report. MDW was 81 and PWK was 77. The 87 is probably bogus but I don't know if anybody at LOT will correct it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 23, 2020 Share Posted May 23, 2020 1.28" of rain today brings May up to 7.64". Standing water everywhere again. Hoping the heavy rains over the next several days goes around us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawkeye_wx Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 I picked up another few tenths (0.40") today. That has been the story this spring... a few tenths at a time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 On 5/22/2020 at 12:58 PM, madwx said: dewpoint up to 58 here. Really feeling the humidity for the first time this year lol currently at 72° for the dew here currently. For me it's been the toughest adjustment since coming from the Toledo area, regular dew points around 70° are pretty tough to golf and exercise in without a substantial breeze. On the ocean it was 84°/65° today but at the house (15 miles inland) 91°/65° and have seen the dew tick up considerably since sunset 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michsnowfreak Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 1 minute ago, nwohweather said: lol currently at 72° for the dew here currently. For me it's been the toughest adjustment since coming from the Toledo area, regular dew points around 70° are pretty tough to golf and exercise in without a substantial breeze. On the ocean it was 84°/65° today but at the house (15 miles inland) 91°/65° and have seen the dew tick up considerably since sunset Sounds like a nightmare climate lol 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janetjanet998 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 .42 last hour at ORD with a quick downpour so .52 for the day so a hair over 9 inches for May so far 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nwohweather Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 Sounds like a nightmare climate lolIt’s wonderful when there is a breeze. But the humidity kind of came out of nowhere, it’s been very mild this entire spring with 75-85° in March-till now with dry weather. Each time those cold fronts hit you guys it kind of turns into more of a dry line so we don’t really get chilly, just dry. It’s similar to summer weather in Traverse City honestly March-April. But now it’s really something humidity wise, but luckily there is usually a solid breeze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 HRRRV gives us our first 90+ degree day of the year tomorrow. Will feel pretty nice after the upper 50s for highs a few days ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrdIowPitMsp Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 We've had two days now of great looking storm complexes completely fall apart before they reach the Twin Cities and leave us with 20min of drizzle. If i'm going to be stuck inside this holiday weekend at least give me interesting weather to look out the window at. I should mention that I am stuck inside because the wife had ACL surgery not because of any legal restrictions in place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCNYILWX Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 87 is what went into the climate report. MDW was 81 and PWK was 77. The 87 is probably bogus but I don't know if anybody at LOT will correct it. We fixed it. 82 is what we came up with, which is much more reasonable. I believe that was with the help of the observer doing a manual observation. The ASOS had a power surge that likely resulted in the problems. We also noticed that the low temperature in the afternoon CLI was incorrect, erroneous 54 degree reading at 10 something AM CDT. Sent from my SM-G965U using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted May 24, 2020 Author Share Posted May 24, 2020 Feels like it's about 100 degrees outside. Obv just not used to this kind of weather yet. Should top out in the upper 80s. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torchageddon Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 What looked to be a iffy day turned out to be a great one, Midwestern ON is blowing way past the forecast temperatures every day now and the light rain for today came at 10:30 am. I see blue skies and towers going up all around . Its 26C feeling like 34C so far, forecast was 22C and t-storm showers. We are entering into a pseudo-heatwave (next three days will feel like 36C). Tomorrow is forecast to be the first 30C air temp of the year and decade. I'm starting to get warm . The quick swing isn't surprising, but the temperature exceeding the forecast by 3C or more each day now is. We were colder than forecast for so long its finally reversed. This isn't the worst May now afterall, the last 1/3rd saved it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclone77 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 47 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Feels like it's about 100 degrees outside. Obv just not used to this kind of weather yet. Should top out in the upper 80s. Ha was just thinking that a little while ago. Definitely a shock to the system after the weather we've had. Humidity has really shot up too, with dews in the upper 60s, and very little wind. ORD up to a legit 87 already, and MLI has made it to 86. If it weren't for the cirrus overhead filtering the sun a bit we may have made 90 today as the HRRRRRRR suggested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wisconsinwx Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 48 minutes ago, Torchageddon said: What looked to be a iffy day turned out to be a great one, Midwestern ON is blowing way past the forecast temperatures every day now and the light rain for today came at 10:30 am. I see blue skies and towers going up all around . Its 26C feeling like 34C so far, forecast was 22C and t-storm showers. We are entering into a pseudo-heatwave (next three days will feel like 36C). Tomorrow is forecast to be the first 30C air temp of the year and decade. I'm starting to get warm . The quick swing isn't surprising, but the temperature exceeding the forecast by 3C or more each day now is. We were colder than forecast for so long its finally reversed. This isn't the worst May now afterall, the last 1/3rd saved it. Happens a lot with our NWS office; they steer towards climo in the 2-7 day range, then correct as time goes on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoosier Posted May 24, 2020 Author Share Posted May 24, 2020 Looks like ORD will top out at 89 or 90. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metallica470 Posted May 24, 2020 Share Posted May 24, 2020 3 minutes ago, Hoosier said: Looks like ORD will top out at 89 or 90. Definitely feel that. With the humidity feeling like low 90s today! Definitely a shock after being pretty cold until just recently. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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