Winds and Cooler Weathers Helping Build Gains

A westerly flow coming through the Pacific Northwest is expected to keep the temperatures warm and the precipitation away for the foreseeable future with no extreme temps or storms hitting the area.

National Weather Service Meteorologist Dennis Hull called it a seasonal pattern.

“The dry peas, the grains, potato, onion and some of the early fruit harvest all will make some good gains with these dry conditions.”

The humidity is also starting to increase with dew visible in some areas in the early morning hours, and then it will decrease throughout the day which should allow some hay threshing and drying.

The little bit of rain that hit the area of the weekend … Hull said it didn’t help much.

“Really it didn’t even dent the evapotranspiration rate. We’re looking at crop water use, this week, around two inches, about the same as last week. It’s slightly higher for hops cause they’re at full foliage right now, so they’re transpiring a lot of moisture.”

The topsoil and subsoil moisture ratings were also not improved by the rain that came through.

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