These past few months have presented various weather challenges and they continue today. As I write this blog I am watching another inch fall on the golf course. From Beryl (Figure 1) to Debby and many days of rain this summer has made it a wet one.
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| Figure 1. Snapshot from The Weather Channel as Beryl dumps rain on The Ford Plantation. |
In the last 42 days we have had 20 days of rainfall and very few days of sunshine in between. That is a whopping 48% of the time it has been raining. The below figure shows the percentage of days we received rainfall in the past four months with the amount of rainfall received:
% d. rain Rain (in)
May 29 6
June 29 6
July 32 3
August 52 11
The cloudy days have tested our Bermudagrass - a sun loving plant. Members and guests can greatly help minimize the impact of the wet weather by avoiding wet areas with carts (Figure 2). Thank you for your cooperation.
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| Figure 2. Avoiding wet areas such as this one on #13 can help minimize turf damage caused by carts. |
