Our Condition Monitoring Star of the Week was posted on May 24th by observer with station number NC-PK-16. We chose this report because it details the effects of drier weather. We want to highlight this report to remind everyone that summer in the Carolinas tends to bring drier weather though some forecasters are predicting a wet summer this year. Either way, current precipitation patterns associated with spring may change as summer closes in. This report does a wonderful job of noting the changes that are already occurring. Please be on the lookout for changes in weather and weather impacts and be sure to include them in your reports. Way to go NC-PK-16!
Categories
Agriculture
Plants and Wildlife
This month continues to be dry, though we received 0.36 inches of rain
this week. The topsoil is dry. Some areas of fields that have bare
soil exposed have small cracks in the ground. Grass is not growing much
and has an overall light green to slight yellow color. We did mow once
this week to spread the seed heads. We irrigated our nut orchard twice
this past week and watered our small fruit tree orchard once.
Additionally, we watered our vegetable fields twice. More Japanese
beetles are appearing, though not in great swarms yet. We have not had
problems with our well.
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