Happy 4th!

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

Thunderstorm is coming…

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

So far so good.

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 for your attendance.

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

Grape root worm + vineyard meeting at Doukenie Vineyard

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

Nice weather so far!

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

I’m back!

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

Finally, a nice weekend!

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

Downy mildew gallery

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

Another thunderstrom…

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
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