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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: 11/23/2019
Submitted: 11/23/2019 6:50 AM
Scale Bar: Mildly Dry
Description:

0.40 inches of rain in the past week. 1.60 inches of rain and melted snow in November. Soil surface is moist but soil profile remains somewhat dry. Stream flow is low and ponds are down. Moisture sufficient for most trees and shrubs since most are dormant. Lawn is green after some warmer temperatures and rain.

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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:

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Please remember to water…correctly!

Water once per week, one inch per week, under the entire branch spread, in the absence of rain, May through November. Either rainfall or your watering should equal the one inch per week. Put out a sprinkler and a straight sided soup can or rain gauge and measure one inch per week.

11-inch capacity rain gauge  

Taylor rain gauge   

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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: 11/16/2019
Submitted: 11/16/2019 7:13 AM
Scale Bar: Mildly Dry
Description:

Only 0.37 inches of liquid this week which fell as 3.2 inches of snow. 1.20 inches of liquid for November. Soil profile has not fully recovered from the drought.

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!

Water once per week, one inch per week, under the entire branch spread, in the absence of rain, May through November. Either rainfall or your watering should equal the one inch per week. Put out a sprinkler and a straight sided soup can or rain gauge and measure one inch per week.

11-inch capacity rain gauge  

Taylor rain gauge   

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Happy New Year 2019 . . . Water New Year that is! 2018-2019 CoCoRaHS Water Year Summary for Cheviot OH 3.4W

Wait! It’s not January 1st, is it?  No, but October 1st was a special day on the CoCoRaHS calendar. It is the first day of the new Water Year!

What is the “water year” you ask?The water year is the best consecutive twelve months that span the “water storage/water usage” hydrologic cycle. The water year cycle is particularly obvious in the Rocky Mountains and western U.S. where snow begins to accumulate at high elevations in October and doesn’t melt and run off until next spring and summer. But this same important annual cycle takes different forms across the entire country. Another way to think of the Water Year is the resting/replenishing season followed by the water consuming season where vegetation grows, crops are cultivated and then harvested.

For much of the country, the months of October through March are months where precipitation from the sky exceeds evaporation from the ground. This means that soil moisture and ground water can recharge. When next spring arrives, temperatures will warm again, plants will come back from dormancy and once again evapotranspiration will surge.