I just mentioned to my husband last night, I'll bet we have gorgeous fall weather. Seems spring comes later and later here. We had a freeze May 19, lousy cool weather and almost 6 weeks of some kind of rain every day after that. July hasn't been much better.
Pam

drought for 6 weeks ...

not enough rain to get moisture through the mulch on the conifers..

not enough to wet the sand under the hosta..

THANKS FOR ASKING!!!!!

ken

Lainey, it has been nearly the same here as it has been for you. We had frost as late as May 22nd, June was nothing but rain with moderate temps, July has been raining nearly every day with a 2 day respite peppered in here and there. July temps have been much cooler than is normal.

Last winter was not too exciting one way or the other. Just a typical winter for Northern Ohio.

Hot and dry here in western NC. Cloudy,right now,with a chance of rain later. Supposed to rain every day next week,but for now,it feels like the dog days of summer! Having to water my newly planted hostas every day. Some of these new planted hostas have never had rain fall on them,yet. Phil

101 for the umpteenth time. It isn't even August yet. I have got to start thinking about some kind of drip system. Just standing there watering in this weather is more than I can take.

Weather here has been cool, it is really nice to be able to get a lot of yard work done,but it has been so cool, we fear the tomatoes may not rippen.
We have had a lot of rain also,good sleeping weather,windows opened at night with a cool breeze,thunder,and lightening,ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,life is good.
cAROL

This weekend is typically the hottest weekend of the year, historically. Yesterday, for my daughter's 10:30am birthday party, it was in the 60's!!! What the heck?

It's been unseasonably cool this week, but prior to that, we'd been in the upper 70's...

We're about 10 inches short on rain this year.

Three weeks without rain. Very low humidity levels, with all of the dry cold fronts coming through. Plants are constantly thirsty. Water pressure is at it's typical summertime low. I have unintended drip irrigation, from my hose!
Rb

Had a wee bit of rain this weekend, but it has been so dry that I dread seeing my water bill since I have had to water so much! Our wet spring was so wonderful in May and June-I was hoping it would keep going all summer. Silly me! Cynthia

Unusually cool weather and dry. Finally had some measurable rain end of last week, otherwise last measurable rain was 6/19/09.

My hostas are showing the no rain strain. Have to find a better way to water.

Ms Jo

In the DC area we have been having typical hot, humid weather, No real rain for decent periods, just storms passing through and just got a few of those in the last two days! Before that it was at least 2 weeks with no rain.

Fortunately we have well water and don't have to pay a water bill! and no, the well is not about to run dry, even though I water the plants liberally.

christine

dear me (thisismelissa)Of course it's cool in MN now, we are here. When we were in mex. it was unseasonably cool, in FL the same thing, in AZ in the early spring again cool. MN now - cooler than usual, dryer too--fewer moquitoes. Not complaining, I like it. Easier to garden and blooms stick around longer.
gramma jan

Rainiest July on record in Rhode Island where I live and just about the same in NH and Maine where I garden. My new hosta garden in NH is loving it. I keep waiting for the summer to start - may be this week - humid, temps in the 80s, chance of thunderstorms daily.

Here in eastern NY, the weather was very nice, always around the 70s up to 80 with weeks of rain. It was a good planting weather, helped me to update my hosta beds. But the next two days we will have 88, but then a week of 80 is forecasted with showers and thunderstorms. Yes, tomorrow I need to soak the hostas!

Rain by the buckets here for May, June, July.
Truly the worst garden year yet for me.
Can't wait til next year.

We've had more than enough rain at times in the spring, and as usual, once the month of July came around the waterworks stopped, at least for a while. We had a couple nice rain showers this past week, though we could still use more. Temps have been a little lower than normal, usually mid-upper eighties for highs and seventies for lows, it's been about ten degrees cooler than usual. Hasn't been bad, unlike last year going through three months without hardly any rain to even speak of. Some of my other plants that did great last year died or were stunted from too wet a spring, and didn't bounce back well. Also, more clouds than sun in June, more sun now it's July.

Karen

Update: No rain fell yesterday,or today! I guess the weather forecasters were just using the CYA method of forecasting! (You figure that out)! Phil

Long winter and a very cool Spring. figured that I had lost many of my hostas but they finally made their appearance at the end of June. Two hail storms at the beginning of July, made coleslaw with the ones that showed promise....not a good year.

Paul