Where do you live exactly and how much rain fall have you had this year? What kind of lawn do you have? I understand there is a better way to take care of your yard but if you live in Houston and water only 4 times this year, I don't see how you can keep St Augustine lawn green.
Organic fertilizer is always my suggestion. Meal products like soy bean meal, alfalfa meal, corn gluten meal, corn meal. these along with composting each year will build your soil more fertile, full of microorganisms. That is the difference in having a home where the builders removed all of the topsoil and sold it, then trucked in sand. It takes a while but building your soil instead of feeding your grass changes the game. Also you cannot directly go from watering your grass 3 times a week to once a month. you have to slowly water less frequently and deeper while at the same time helping it establish a healthy root system.
A brush fire that is very close to a row of houses is currently going on about a mile or half from my house. Hopefully, it can be contained.
It's very possible that August would be 100 degrees for the entire month. There is no break from this heat wave. http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2011/0...tant-hurricane-but-hot-and-dry-close-to-home/
Austin will tie the record of 69 days over 100 tomorrow. At this point, I'm just hoping we don't have a 100 over 100 year. I'd give just about anything to have a cool front around Sept 16th (ACL festival weekend).
So a "cool" front will pass through in the next few days. Dropping humidity levels but in doing so, allowing temperatures to rise even higher. Might as well shoot for 110 degrees this weekend. The all time recored high for Houston 109 in 2000.
That's what they are calling it in this special statment released by the local NWS. "Record breaking heat will continue across southeast Texas with afternoon temperatures soaring into the upper 90s to 105 with relative humidity values of 18 to 30 percent during the afternoon hours through Friday. A weak cold front will usher in drier air from the northeast late Friday and Saturday. Inland temperatures will likely exceed 103 degrees and with the drier air in place the relative humidity readings may drop to 12 to 20 percent during the peak of the afternoon heating on Saturday. Light north and northeast winds will develop in the wake of the front and may push the dry air over even the coastal counties."
**** weather. **** it right up its ass with a big rubber dick. and then break it off and beat it over the head with the stump.
Just wait until ACL if this doesn't break. 3 days over 100 degrees crammed in with ~70,000 people. Awesome.
apparently, we need a major hurricane to knock the fkin high pressure out of the place. Nice?! lol All i know that Texas and High Pressure needs to break up, STAT!!! that will be horrific. heat stroke is no joke.
