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Soil Moisture Condition Monitoring Weekly Report: Moderately Dry with Drought Developing in parts of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana

 

Station Number: OH-HM-24
Station Name: Cheviot 3.4 W
Report Date: 9/21/2019
Submitted: 9/21/2019 6:35 AM
Scale Bar: Moderately Dry
Description:

No measurable rain for almost 3 weeks. Hot weather over the past 2 weeks with temperatures much above normal and high drying rates. Ground is very dry. Lawn drought stress is worsening. Trees and shrubs are showing drought stress. Streams are very low or drying up.

Categories:
General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Water Supply & Quality

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This report is specifically for the Arbor Doctor’s location 3.4 miles west of Cheviot, OH, in the western suburbs of Cincinnati in southwest Ohio. This location is also an official cooperative observation site for the National Weather Service listed as Cheviot 3W.

What is the Condition Monitoring Report? See these links for more information:

Explanation of scale bar>>>

Search condition monitoring reports for the entire US>>>

Please remember to water…correctly!

 

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Soil Moisture Condition Monitoring Weekly Report: Mildly Dry

Station Number: OH-HM-24
Station Name: Cheviot 3.4 W
Report Date: 9/14/2019
Submitted: 9/14/2019 6:55 AM
Scale Bar: Mildly Dry
Description:

No measurable rain in the past 12 days. Excessive heat over the past week. Lawns are beginning to show drought stress, as are landscape plants and trees. Ground is dry and hard. Fall wildflowers are coming into bloom despite mid-summer like heat.

Categories:
General Awareness
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife

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This report is specifically for the Arbor Doctor’s location 3.4 miles west of Cheviot, OH, in the western suburbs of Cincinnati in southwest Ohio. This location is also an official cooperative observation site for the National Weather Service listed as Cheviot 3W.

What is the Condition Monitoring Report? See these links for more information:

Explanation of scale bar>>>

Search condition monitoring reports for the entire US>>>

Please remember to water…correctly!

 

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National Weather Service Cooperative Weather Observers

2 years ago I was asked by the National Weather Service Wilmington, OH, to become a cooperative weather observer. Here is more on the history of the cooperative weather observer program.  -Ron Rothhaas

In 1644 and 1655, John Campanius Holm, a Lutheran minister, was the first observer to take systematic observations in the American Colonies.

cooperative weather stationIn 1776, Thomas Jefferson began to recruit volunteer weather observers throughout Virginia. By 1800, there were volunteers in five other states across the newborn nation. They included Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York and North Carolina. In 1891, the network of voluntary weather observers across the country had grown to 2,000 stations.

In 1890, the growing volunteer force was taken over by the Smithsonian Institution. It was not until 1953 that a plan was established to evenly blanket the nation with weather observers.

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