The thunderstorm on 7/01/09 lasted a little over an hour (0.73 inches); however, RH remained high for about 9 hours with an average temperature of 65F. Thus the event was… Read more
The radar is showing thunderstorms for tonight (now I heard the thunder…); however, in the past few days, there is only one night when the condition was favorable for downy… Read more
We had a short thunderstorm event on Friday (26th), but it lasted about 3.5 hours with an average temperature of 73F and a total precipitation of 0.33 inches. It was… Read more
Thank you very much for attending the vineyard meeting at Doukenie last night. If you could not make it, you can download my note from here. As I mentioned several… Read more
We found infestation on new vines by these bugs. For more information, please refer to these extension factsheets from Virginia Tech and Cornell University. Damage on leaves (adults feed on… Read more
This may be the first time in a long time that I don’t mention about disease risk 😉 We had two nights with relatively low RH which makes less conducive… Read more
Finally, almost a week long meeting is done and I’m back in Winchester. Here’s a summary of what happened during last week. 6/15: night time temperature ~64F, RH 7-80% (DM)6/16:… Read more
Since the last posting, we had showers on early morning of 6/13/09, but it was not significant in terms of duration of potential wetness event. Night time temperature has been… Read more
At Winchester, we had light rain events during the night of 6/12/09, but it was short events and the relative humidity was low (80% or so), thus it probably did… Read more
We had a thunderstorm went through the town yesterday evening around 5:40 pm then there were several rain events throughout the night (~0.48 inches). The relative humidity is still above… Read more