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***Official 2024 Weather Thread***

somecyguy said:
I tried to aerate a few weeks ago with my pull-behind. I quickly realized how pointless it was. 150 pounds of weight sitting on it and it still bounced off the ground like it was concrete.
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Mine looked like it went okay but the plugs sure as hell aren't breaking down lol
 
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First hard freeze this morning. 27 degrees. 193 growing days. Last year first hard freeze was Oct. 30. 189 growing days in 2023. Southeast Iowa.
 
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I knew my tiller would be worthless on my garden this fall, so I decided to spade it. Looks like I cornered the market on bowling balls with all the huge clods I have in it now.
 
Since you Iowa peeps are in the same no rain since August situation as me I'll throw out a tree and shrub care suggestion. Give your evergreen trees and shrubs a good soaking in. They need the stored moisture for the winter.

I am going to drag the hose with a soaker nozzle on the end out for my white pines, rhododendrons and yews. Rhododendrons were wilting when I lugged some water cans over and gave them a drink last night. My yard has cracks in it, that's too dry!
 
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Nader_uggghhh said:
Almost all of Jones County is in the 0-2% range and there still isn't a burn ban. Every surrounding county has a burn ban
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There was a fairly big field fire north of Waterloo yesterday. Not sure what started it, but I wouldn’t burn a thing out in the country right now. Everything is a tinderbox.
 
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There was a fairly big field fire north of Waterloo yesterday. Not sure what started it, but I wouldn’t burn a thing out in the country right now. Everything is a tinderbox.
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It's amazing there haven't been more field fires with the conditions. It doesn't look like any notable rain chances through the end of the month either.
 
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There was one by Prairieburg yesterday as well. Not very big from the sounds of it but a field with standing corn.
 
1) There was a large grass fire on the shoulder of southbound I-35 just south of Ames. That was happening this evening.
2) Facebook memories tells me that we had our first measurable snowfall, even if just a trace, four years ago.
 
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