Update 6/8/18 Southwest Kansas Weather and Giant Pumpkins - Like Oil and Water
This weather so far this spring has been brutal on EVERYTHING! We had one of the driest fall/winter/spring periods on record! We started with one of the top coldest Aprils on record. Then we had a record warmest May at Dodge City (and it obliterated the previous record). Hot and windy days, high humidity at times, thunderstorms with a lot of wind! The previous post I did on the 29th (you can read it by clicking here ) I was scrambling to build some protection from the elements (hail at that time and now a hot wind). It did help, thankfully! This past Wednesday night we had a high wind event from a collapsing thunderstorm during the night with 70-75 MPH winds here at the Hacienda but even higher winds southwest of here! I had to leave in the dark yesterday morning so wasn't sure what I would find when I came home. The only damage we had was a downed poplar tree and a pool full of debris (took about 1 1/2 hours to clean that up). But the pumpkins? They came through with no