Disease risks from on-goin rain

A series of rain events started around 3:00 PM on 21 April in Winchester area.  We are still receiving some precipitations today, and the relative humidity was high (>90%) all… Read more

Disease risks from yesterday’s rain

Winchester area received a series of rain events from 5:30AM on 18 April.  It lasted about 10 PM.  Since the rain stopped at night, leaf wetness is still on-going (i.e.,… Read more

Disease risks from yesterday’s rain

There was a very short shower went through Winchester area around midnight last night.  It lasted about 1.5 hrs, the air was relatively dry (~80% RH), and the average temperature… Read more

Disease risks from 4/9/12 precipitation

Winchester area received some precipitation last night; however, the length of the rain event was short (30-40 min), the average temperature was low (48-49F), and relative humidity did not stay… Read more

Disease risks from 4/2/12 precipitation

Rain from yesterday (4/2/12) started around 9PM on 4/1, and lasted until 2:30AM or so.  The RH was high (>90%) until 3:55AM, thus this was about 7 hours of wetness… Read more

Initial infection event for powdery mildew

Well, it typically won’t happen until May or so, but under this weather conditions, you cannot expect the usual trend.  Often time, powdery mildew is common under dry weather because… Read more

Rain, rain, rain, again… Botrytis, Sour Rot, and Downy??

I thought I would wait until the rain stops to update the blog, but rains are keep coming and even when we do not receive precipitations, the air has been… Read more

Disease risks from weekend’s rain

Irene stayed little longer than I expected in our area.  At the end of Sunday, Winchester area received a total of about 0.5 inches of rain. I was monitoring the… Read more

This would happen when you are gone for two weeks…

I was out from my office for two weeks due to various meetings.  Apparently birds found where berries are…  (plus we have a new planting of cherries nearby.)  All of… Read more

rain again, but…

Well, you may not believe me, but despite of the fact that everywhere else received pouring rain (I drove through them too!), Winchester area received only 0.07 inches or so… Read more
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