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jasons2k wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 10:52 pm All of the Phoenix dactylifera at Portofino in Shenandoah got completely decimated last year. Every single one - gone. The mexican fan palms were hit or miss, but most up here lived. Queens were wiped out. Pindos and mule palms did fine. Most canaries are fine but a small few of them got knocked out - probably the sickly ones.

Surprisingly, it was about the same up here as it was down into south Houston. It was that wind that evened it out.

user:null wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 11:37 pm I agree with Stratton. The 18z GFS run is the best so far today. Relief could come as soon as this Wednesday/Thursday with a subtle inverted trough, for those that are lucky. Otherwise, the next week looks promising on that run, with another tropical influx, followed by what seems to be a backdooring front.

The silver-lining is that, as bad as heat is, it doesn't cause near as much damage to vegetation/ecosystems as freezing weather does. In fact, nothing happens provided that there is ample water supply — and even with hot, rainless summers, you still have the loads of crops seen in California's Central Valley.

Now contrast that with 2021 type freeze, where the entire landscape goes brown with damage just from the few days of cold. Even native live oaks were killed in North Texas, their trunks literally cracked and split. Even the light 30-32°F morning lows is enough to brown everything with dormancy, let alone the major events.

Stratton20 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 11:54 am All models are now on board that the ridge will back off to the west and allow a back door front to move in next week and stall out, leading to daily appreciable rain chances! Looks like a pattern change is coming!

Stratton20 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 11:54 am All models are now on board that the ridge will back off to the west and allow a back door front to move in next week and stall out, leading to daily appreciable rain chances! Looks like a pattern change is coming!

cperk wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 11:58 am

Stratton20 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 11:54 am All models are now on board that the ridge will back off to the west and allow a back door front to move in next week and stall out, leading to daily appreciable rain chances! Looks like a pattern change is coming!

I'm not falling for it,i'll believe it when i see it falling from the sky.

suprdav2 wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:12 pm Bright and sunny out here in Cypress. And apparently HOA already sending out letters to people telling them to re-sod their yards.

TexasBreeze wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:33 pm New grass isn't going to grow well with a hot ongoing drought. They act like people have money to throw for new lawns, but that is a issue for another time I guess!

Cromagnum wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:42 pm

TexasBreeze wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:33 pm New grass isn't going to grow well with a hot ongoing drought. They act like people have money to throw for new lawns, but that is a issue for another time I guess!

Yeah...I would be pressing that issue with the HOA. Every home I've seen that has re-sodded, the new grass looks worse than lawns that were left intact.