For those of you that may not know me well yet, you'll soon discover that I'm a numbers fanatic. I love to keep records and documentation of just about anything. Fortunately, this often proves very beneficial for this profession, not only in keeping track of all things important, but also in helping to save money, time maintenance practices and having an accurate record to compare historical events.
One of the big databases of numbers I like to keep on top of is weather. Not only is it fun to compare months, and different times of years, along with annual extreme stats, but keeping track of the weather helps us apply various fertilizers and chemicals at just the right time, punch holes when we know they'll heal the fastest, and schedule the right work, for the right turf area, at the right time.
So just to start, I thought I'd share some of the fun numbers generated so far by the few winter months we've endured:
As of December 15, 2010...
- 24 of the last 38 days we've had either frost or rain
- Current rain total for the winter is 16.34" (I've been told we average around 40")
- Max rain in one day = 5.07" (Oct. 24th)
- Lowest temperature = 22.5 F (Nov. 25th)
- Longest cold spell (days below freezing) = 7 days (Nov 23-29)
- NO SNOW!.....yet (last December was when Winchester got almost a foot of fresh powder)
It's already been a wild, wet, chilly winter so it will be interesting to see what becomes of the next few months. The good news is that despite being a bit soft in spots, the golf course is still playing great with the greens rolling truer and quicker than they have in quite some time!
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