7 hours agoMemorial Day Weekend! Warming Weather, Rain Continues, 1st Dollar Spot and a Research UpdateSpring continued with a week of weather full of surprises. Well, maybe not so surprising because it’s spring 2022! It’s been cooler than normal (April). It’s been warmer than normal (early May). It’s been days of perfection (late May). Then this past week it was confusing (all of the above)…5 min read
May 20Perfect! Temps Cool, Greens Survive 1st Stressors, and Broadleaf Weeds Impress (insert dandelions here)Perfect! The third week of May turned out to be much nicer than the second week (that record hot one). Temperatures were cool again. Even chilly on a few days. And a nice Chicago spring had returned. The landscape continued to turn the pages of spring. The trees were finally…4 min read
May 13Spring No More! Record Heat, New Pests (Waitea, Sod Webworms, Quackgrass), plus a Divot Repair Research UpdateThree words are all that is needed to summarize May’s second week in Illinois. Spring no more! The radio news went something like this: “Last night’s low of 74 degrees set a new record. Yesterday’s first official high of 90 degrees set a new record, because Chicago normally doesn’t see…6 min read
May 6The Weather!?!: Rain Frustrates, Forecast to Change and Ball MarksThe Weather!?! The first week of May started off, and felt, much as it did in April or even March. One weather headline and graphic (by WGN-TV) started off “It’s March in May…”. The pattern? Persistent cool temperatures along with a consistent pattern of rainfall. Historically it didn’t look real…5 min read
Apr 29May! : See You Later Alligator (April), Nada on Diagnostics, Temperature Timings, and Divot Study DATAOverall, April was cold. And so it was fitting. Fitting that it ended on a cold note. I would call it B flat or Brrr flat. In the final week we saw a night or two with warnings of freezing. One day was actually hot. Like 80+ degrees. How it…5 min read
Apr 22April!?!: It’s Still Cool & Wet, a New Divot Repair Study, and Seeing Broadleaves (Weeds)The third week of April started off with a hop, hop, hop. It was Easter Sunday. In the landscape we are noticing some jumping too. Of the bulb kind. Things like Hyacinth and daffodil are now in peak bloom. Tulips are still just in bud (flowers will come a little…6 min read
Apr 15Spring Starts?: A 70F Day, Forsythia Blooms, What is GDD? and Seedhead SuppressionThis was an “interesting” week. We experienced a pulse of warm temperature mid-week only to slide back down. But on the whole Mother Nature is waking up. Just look around in the landscape and you will see the first colors of spring. YELLOW. Yes, many of the earliest flowers that…5 min read
Apr 8A Slow Spring: We Need 25%, Cool & Wet Continues, plus Is Moss a Weed?It’s been a week filled with rain and the associated cloud cover. It’s the slow, dreary, constant kind that we are now seeing. Did I say, Constant? It won’t stop. We’re all wet. When it rains it pours. But it’s not all bad. For example, just today I heard a…5 min read
Apr 1Some Firsts: 1st of April Arrives, 1st Diagnostic Visits and When To Expect 1st Warm Days?April Fools? Warmer than average temperatures for the upper Midwest in April, 2022 is about a 50/50 chance. But maybe that’s just April Fools… March Weather Summary by Shehbaz Singh, MS Cold Dips. Air temperature for March 2022 is mostly higher than the normal range for this month except a dip around 12th of March when temperature…4 min read
Mar 25When March Brings April Showers and a 2021 Chicago Nematode SurveyMarch Weather Update by Shehbaz Singh, MS This year. Chicago’s air temperature for March 2022 is mostly higher than normal except for the usual extremes. There was a dip around the 12th of March when temperature was at its lowest (11° F) and the highest temperature was around 74° F on the 21st of March. Last year…Golf4 min read
