After a warm start, September turned cool and dry. Some welcome rains late but still a need to water.

Regional Climate Report – September 2020

Dry September is breaking records in Indiana October 1, 2020

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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. September 15, 2020

La Nina pattern could bring cool weather over the short term and may bring a winter which could be cooler and wetter (or whiter) than last winter in the Ohio valley. September 12, 2020

Soil Moisture Condition Monitoring Weekly Report: Near Normal September 12, 2020

Smoke from western wildfires is spreading over much of the west coast and well west across the Pacific. September 10, 2020

It feels like summer in Cincinnati, but it is meteorological fall and Rapid City, SD residents can testify to that! September 8, 2020

August temperatures a little cooler than normal in the Ohio valley with spotty rainfall. September 2, 2020

Today, yes today, is the first day of meteorological fall! September 1, 2020

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.

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October 1, 2020

Dry September is breaking records in Indiana

Posted: Oct 1, 2020 / 01:08 PM EST / Updated: Oct 1, 2020 / 01:17 PM EST

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Several signs like brown lawns and low creeks are pointing to the fact central Indiana is in need of rain. September ended up being the driest month on record and that isn’t the only record in jeopardy.

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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