The Weather Roller Coaster Continues

The month of May was all over the spectrum weather wise.  We saw a nice start to the month, followed by about 2 weeks of intensely warm, on the verge of hot weather, accompanied by significant winds and very low humidity.  The last week of the month wrapped up by having well below average temperatures, and finally brought some much needed rains, but still didn't get our total precip for the month even close to average. 

Total precip for the month ended up at 1.75", which was greatly boosted by the .61" we received on the 27th.  Average for May should be 2.70", so we still ended up almost a full inch below average.  Coupled with the very warm (highs of 88, and 89, with nighttime lows around 60) temperatures and gusty south winds during the middle part of the month, it wasn't exactly an easy month on the turf.  To follow that up, the last week brought us temps much below average (highs of 55 and lows of 33 and 37) and two back to back frosty mornings of the 30th and 31st.  Just another crazy month.

May ended up a mere 2.7 degrees warmer than the 30 year average.  That makes 10 straight months that the average temperatures have been either a little to a lot warmer than average.  Here are the last 10 months and the degrees in which they have been warmer than average:  May: 2.7   April: 3.6  March: 12.8  February: 7.0  January: 6.7  December:  11.5  November:  5.4  October: 7.0  September:  2.4  August: 2.5

Hard frost on the morning of the 30th