Your Weather, 2025

[digitS']

Heating up again.

Humidity ... I took a look at the recent days in Lansing, Michigan. (That's kind of "mid-Michigan, USoA" and in one of theTEG gardener's neck of the woods .) Never below 57% humidity in Lansing on those recent days.

Our recent hot → mild days, during the morning's coolness, (55°f this morning), the humidity was 55%. On that 97°f afternoon, the humidity was 18%. As they say (only partly correct), "it's not the heat, it's the humidity." It is also partly correct to say that the cold feels more cold in higher humidity. ... I'd sure like to see some rain on our horizon! We absolutely can do without any lightening but a half inch of rain over 12 hours would likely be of considerable benefit.

Steve, buttoning up the house before 9AM as the outdoors temp rises above 70f (21C)

 

[ducks4you]

Still inside, but we finally have had some good rains that I have watched from inside the house and on the porch. Messed up my Godmower, they picked it up Monday, the drive to go forwards and back had slipped off, checked it and put it back and it was back yesterday. DD drove it to the Carriage House, which they have now renamed my
"She Shed." Mowing with the tractor (DH), Godmower (eldest DD) and trim work with new self driving push mower (youngest DD) will be tomorrow evening, ahead of Saturday's predicted t storms.
Good chances of rain and Heavy rain for the next 5 days.

 

[ducks4you]

Heating up again.

Humidity ... I took a look at the recent days in Lansing, Michigan. (That's kind of "mid-Michigan, USoA" and in one of theTEG gardener's neck of the woods . Never below 57% humidity in Lansing on those recent days.

Our recent hot → mild days, during the morning's coolness, (55°f this morning), the humidity was 55%. On that 97°f afternoon, the humidity was 18%. As they say (only partly correct), "it's not the heat, it's the humidity." It is also partly correct to say that the cold feels more cold in higher humidity. Howsomeever ... I'd sure like to see some rain on our horizon! We absolutely can do without any lightening but a half inch of rain over 12 hours would likely be of considerable benefit.

Steve

Lucky you! Some cool relief. We are still in the hot and humid/hot and muggy that only tropical plants really love weather. NO real relief for us until probably mid September.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Last couple of days weather here has been in high 90’sF and 100’s on lower elevations near Portland. I live up in the foothill at 800’ elevation and trees surround the property keeping it cool by a process called transpiration by more than 10 degrees cooler.

How Trees Can Cool Your House (and You) in Summer

Trees serve many benefits to your yard, including their ability to help lower your energy bill. Learn the two factors in choosing shade trees to cool your home.

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[ducks4you]

I hear ya about the trees. DD's lost two established trees on their south easement. Town chopped them down, ground the stumps to woodchips, but they lost their shade.
Eldest DD is taking a new route to work, NNW of them, some 25 minutes and was telling me about driving by a "tree place," which I established as a local and family run nursery that I have visited.
I suggested that they take a lot of yard photos, tell them that they want to plant some shade trees, particularly cultivars that grow to only about 20 ft tall, suggestions about distance from house foundation to plant, etc.
I imagine that they will be buying/plants trees in their empty south yard--where the city cannot chop them down--sometime this fall, perfect time to transplant.
I bet that if they also plant a Japanese Maple and/or Dogwood in between such trees and close to the house that they will have some good shade in a few years.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Thanks Ducks great idea and fab tree suggestions…May I add a small humble tree grows to 15-20’ , full of blooms first in spring the Saucer Magnolia (Magnolia x soulangeana).
Just keeping temps cooler in summer.
Easy care and drought resistant once established.


Back to weather - 78F tops today . Nice cool breezes and marine layer overcast.

 

[digitS']

Quite a change in the weather, the recent 2 days.

With all the clouds, the thermometer never climbed above 70°f (21°C) degrees on Monday. We didn't see the sun for the entire day and there wasn't much sunlight nor much more warmth, yesterday. By afternoon, we had a thunderstorm! Boom! The clouds finally dropped about a tenth of an inch of rain. The claps of thunder were more dramatic than some rainfall finally showing up.

Blue skies and sunshine this morning and likely much warmer temperatures.

Steve