[blanning]

Originally Posted by prerunner1982

2006, 2011, and 2012 were some of the hottest summers in recent years.

Thanks for the info.

[Bass&Catfish2008]

This summer is shaping out to be super cold by Oklahoma standards. It's gonna be in the 80's most of next week!

That's pretty much unheard of over several days during the months of July and especially August in the South-Central region of Oklahoma, Texas, and parts of Arkansas.

[teakboat]

We've had a few really nice summers in a row now, with this being the nicest. mostly 90's with periodic rain all summer.
Green grass all summer for the last 3 years. It is unusual

[blanning]

Originally Posted by teakboat

We've had a few really nice summers in a row now, with this being the nicest. mostly 90's with periodic rain all summer.
Green grass all summer for the last 3 years. It is unusual

Green grass all summer... it turns brown because of the heat or lack of rain?

[teakboat]

I'd say mainly lack of rain, it goes dormant and lives in its root system. But when the soil is wet, can take up nitrogen and minerals again so it come back green real fast.

[eddie gein]

Originally Posted by blanning

Green grass all summer... it turns brown because of the heat or lack of rain?

As teak says it is probably both. Keep in mind that during the brutal summers cities will put out water bans. If there isn't a water ban it will stay green in really high heat. It's just that your water bill will be sky high.


And as B&C says, it's been a pretty mild summer. We have only had three days over 100 degrees. They were in mid to late July and they were right in a row. One was 104, the next 107 and the last was 111. Then it cooled off.

IMO, June is a bit weird cause it CAN get sticky at about 85 degrees. Usually in July and August/early September it is drier and anything below 90 isn't too bad. Anything under 95 is tolerable. 100 isn't to bad if it's really dry but generally the heat index here runs 3-4 degrees higher than the ambient temperature.

[blanning]

Originally Posted by eddie gein

As teak says it is probably both. Keep in mind that during the brutal summers cities will put out water bans. If there isn't a water ban it will stay green in really high heat. It's just that your water bill will be sky high.


And as B&C says, it's been a pretty mild summer. We have only had three days over 100 degrees. They were in mid to late July and they were right in a row. One was 104, the next 107 and the last was 111. Then it cooled off.

IMO, June is a bit weird cause it CAN get sticky at about 85 degrees. Usually in July and August/early September it is drier and anything below 90 isn't too bad. Anything under 95 is tolerable. 100 isn't to bad if it's really dry but generally the heat index here runs 3-4 degrees higher than the ambient temperature.

We're planning to be rural so I don't plan on watering any lawns. I do want to put in a greenhouse/shade cover for growing some food. I'll do a combination of rain catchment and well water to water the garden.

For gardening, I plan to use something called the mittleider method, aquaponics, and back to eden assuming I can get mulched trees in quantity. All three of those use something like 90% less water. But since we have a lot of people, I may end up having to dig a second well or maybe a deeper well. I haven't researched that yet.

I may end up having to move farther east closer to Tulsa to get more rainfall assuming that's enough to matter.

[teakboat]

It does matter, get as far east as you can, for rainfall. For example, Coweta OK averages a decent 43 inches of rain per year. OKC gets 36.5 inches.

If you are close to Tulsa, go to the green waste facility in NE Tulsa. It is a giant pile of shredded and partially composted wood mulch which is free to you, just back up a truck or trailer they will lay a big scoop of it on you. A pretty nice resource if you need it. You might have to live in Tulsa county, I can't remember.

[blanning]

Originally Posted by teakboat

It does matter, get as far east as you can, for rainfall. For example, Coweta OK averages a decent 43 inches of rain per year. OKC gets 36.5 inches.

If you are close to Tulsa, go to the green waste facility in NE Tulsa. It is a giant pile of shredded and partially composted wood mulch which is free to you, just back up a truck or trailer they will lay a big scoop of it on you. A pretty nice resource if you need it. You might have to live in Tulsa county, I can't remember.

That's awesome. Thanks for the tip. Is there something like this around OKC?

Here in Uruguay, it's nearly impossible to get that kind of thing because you're allowed to dump it in the land fill free of charge. So all the tree services just do that.

[Mattie Jo]

banning,

why did you pick Oklahoma?