What's really getting to me is how thin the grass is. Some patches in the lawn look as if the little grasslings poked out of the ground and simply grew longer instead of growing out healthily. Lots of wilting where the grass is collapsing under its own weight.
Similar story for the tree leaves, too, with thin, papery, small leaves that are wilting and only growing in patches, especially on the Ash trees on our street. That's how you know we need the rain.
I have a big bucket full of rainwater sitting n the shade behind the shed. I'll definitely be emptying it on our lawn if Phil's mid-May heatwave PROMISE comes to fruition, and especially if we get shafted in the next couple weeks.
I'll be real dissapointed if that deformation band with this weekend's cutoff doesn't make it up here. The wet weather has been nice these last few days, but we'll still finish April with less than half the precipitation we'd normally see. Because it hasn't been very ridgy this Spring nothing is drying out all that much. The cool weather has prevented anything from turning brown. But simultaneously, the lack of rainfall has also kept the biosphere from really blooming. It's not very lush out there, unlike in Spring 2022 where we had plenty of rainfall and the humidity plus the overwhelming smell of active plantlife made for somewhat of a tropical feel at times. This year is different... We're just sitting ducks waiting for the first heatwave of the year to officially dry everything out. With how dry it's been since March, it might only take one.
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