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1. Melvin Waldron

   

   43 posts
   
   8/3/2012 8:08 AM

   Just doing my weather report for my monthly report and I will track highs and lows. We ended up 10.5 degrees above normal for the month. I have also noticed that we are sometimes 3 to 4 degrees above the airport which is our official NOAA weather station and it's about 6 or so miles from us, I have a electronic fairly cheap (you know me) thermometer from Forestry Supply, I do have it in one of those white weather station houses so the sun doesn't directly shine on it, but could the dry ground around it (all the grass has gone dormant, I guess .22 inches of rain wasn't enough to keep it green?), could this give me a little of a false reading?
   
   I'm I obsessing to much about it? I also look at it as THIS IS the temperature here on our course under our conditions so if that is my reading?
   
   Thanks!
   
   Mel

   
   Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO
   
   
2. Melvin Waldron

   

   43 posts
   
   8/3/2012 4:08 PM

   Jeff,
   
   Thanks for that about the ET....I didn't think of that when and if I get one. Gee that's going to be a lot of planning, maybe I better have two, of course we are still working on the beer we bought on the fourth of July.
   
   Mel

   
   Melvin H. Waldron III, CGCS, Horton Smith Golf Course, City of Springfield/Greene County MO
   
   
3. Ronald Conard

   

   4 posts
   
   8/3/2012 5:08 PM

   Forget everything Jeffy said. Your readings are relative. As long as they are taken in a consistent manner then the data you get is fine for your application.
   
   Personally, I'd rather have a weather station out of an irrigated area. Why? Because how consistent is the data when the area is irrigated beneath the station and yet you are stretching your irrigation in a certain management zone and that zone won't be irrigated for three or four more days. Or vica versa. Do you irrigate your entire golf course everyday or is it broken up into management zones? So really, this a variable I'd rather have out of the equation. Sure your E.T.'s may run higher in a non-irrigated area but as long as the data is consistent then you are golden.
   
   Otherwise Jeffy is alway right.

   
   
   
   
4. Ronald Conard

   

   4 posts
   
   8/4/2012 10:08 AM

   Jeffrey Wallace, CGCS said: Forget everything Ronny just said. Except the last sentence.
   
   He's been to Thailand and violated my girlfriend. This is a guy you can trust? Yeah....right. And your readings are your relatives? That doesn't even make sense. Sheesh.
   
   That's all. Good night.

   
   
   
   Actually she violated me first but thanks for letting me borrow her. That's the price a guy pays for out kicking your coverage.