Soil Moisture Condition Monitoring Weekly Report: Moderately Dry. Increasingly critical need to provide supplemental water to landscape trees and shrubs.

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Station Number: OH-HM-24
Station Name: Cheviot 3.4 W
Report Date: 9/26/2020
Submitted: 9/26/2020 6:03 AM
Scale Bar: Moderately Dry
Description:

Soils are very dry. No measurable rain here for 12 days and 1.30 inches of rain in September. Dry conditions have persisted here for weeks but in much of the local area for well over a month. Soils are very dry. Lawn here is going into dormancy but many lawns in the local area are in drought stress. Trees are dropping leaves. Lakes and rivers are low. Crops are brown or turning brown. Increasingly critical need to provide supplemental water to landscape trees and shrubs.

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It’s dry and getting drier. Forecast calls for more dry weather in the coming weeks. Time to water! Please delay shutting down irrigation for the year.

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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.

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A large dry area has developed from southern Illinois into southwest and west central Ohio.

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 >>>

Watering: How and when>>>

Watering Trees and Shrubs>>>

September 23, 2020

Sunrise at the South Pole. What Is Midnight Sun or Polar Day?

Midnattsol ved Nordkapp. — Midnight Sun at North Cape, Norway.

The September equinox means sunrise at the South Pole and sunset at the North Pole. The sun will not set again at the South Pole until the March equinox. Midnight sun is when at least a part of the Sun’s disk is visible above the horizon 24 hours of the day. The scientific name for midnight Sun is polar day and the opposite is polar night. As the upper edge of the solar disc disappears below the horizon, the Sun has set, and there is no longer midnight Sun.

Soil Moisture Condition Monitoring Weekly Report: Mildly Dry. It’s dry and getting drier. Forecast calls for more dry weather in the coming weeks. Time to water! Please delay shutting down irrigation for the year.

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Station Number: OH-HM-24
Station Name: Cheviot 3.4 W
Report Date: 9/19/2020
Submitted: 9/19/2020 6:26 AM
Scale Bar: Mildly Dry
Description:

No rain here in the past 5 days. 0.60 inches of rain in the past 7 days. 1.30 inches of rain in September. Lawn is still generally green and growing but has slowed down. Ground is dry. Some drought stress beginning to show up. Conditions are much drier not far away. Waterways are low. Abundant and increasing drought stress in the local area. Crops have turned brown in many areas. Early leaf loss from some trees.

Categories: General Awareness
Agriculture
Business & Industry
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health

It’s dry and getting drier. Forecast calls for more dry weather in the coming weeks. Time to water! Please delay shutting down irrigation for the year>>>

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

Explanation of scale bar>>>

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Search condition monitoring reports for the entire US>>>

Interactive	Condition Monitoring
Static	Watershed Maps

A large dry area has developed from southern Illinois into southwest and west central Ohio.

Please remember to water…correctly!

11-inch capacity rain gauge >>>

Taylor rain gauge >>>

Watering: How and when>>>

Watering Trees and Shrubs>>>

Soil Moisture Index:

Meteorological Versus Astronomical Seasons

Spring: March 1-May 31; Summer: June 1-August 31; Fall: September 1-November 30; Winter: December 1-February 28 (29)

You may have noticed that Arbor Doctor, meteorologists and climatologists define seasons differently from “regular” or astronomical spring, summer, fall, and winter. So, why do meteorological and astronomical seasons begin and end at different times? Climatologically, the period July 14-21, the mid-point of meteorological summer, is the hottest week of the year and the period January 14-21, the mid-point of meteorological winter, is the coldest week of the year over much of the continental US including the Ohio valley.