On Jun 22, 3:36 pm, Phyllis and Jim wrote:
Seven to one is a pretty steep contrast between the pond and the stock
tank. I am interested that your neighbor has lost more than 7"! That
would cause me to rethink my loss rate...or his. Does the pond have a
stream or falls to increase the evaporation rate? Have you noted
where the change in rate happened? It might be interesting to check
for milk-pull-through at that level.

Jim

I turned off the waterfall (to decrease evaporation rate as you
mentioned) to see what would happen. It still went down but very very
slowly. That the stock tank has still lost less than 2 inches in 8
days, cause me decide to look for the leak. I think I may have found
them in a couple of patches that were seeping EVER so slowly but
enough to get my attention. I am using Beckett's patch instead of the
stuff that came with the BTL liner as that patch material is not
keeping the water in as I think it should. I hope to complete the
repairs this afternoon and begin refilling the pond. Humidity today
is 11%.

W. Dale

W Dale wrote:
Humidity today is 11%.


How's it feel to be so humid? If we get above 10% here in Phoenix
during May-Aug we feel sticky. Aug-Sept we get the "Monsoon" season and
can reach as high as 25%-35%.

Chip

the fact that you have such a high humidity in a desert is to me a crime
against the environment but i'm not going to get on my soap box and rant
against the insanity of phoenix requiring people to grow lawns...

we have had 100% humidity and temperatures above 90F on long island -
further south that is much more common and with higher temperatures. I have
tried to convince my spouse that 120 in southern california is far cooler
than what we get here and that it is all about the humidity. he won't buy
it. in the desert when you sweat it cools you off - out here it just
increases your misery. i feel so sorry for my fish when the water gets too
warm. i envy you your 10%.

donna


"Chip" wrote in message ...
W Dale wrote:
Humidity today is 11%.


How's it feel to be so humid? If we get above 10% here in Phoenix during
May-Aug we feel sticky. Aug-Sept we get the "Monsoon" season and can
reach as high as 25%-35%.

Chip

This is probably a poor time to mention this but I will anyway. Here
in northern Florida we have yet to break into triple digits. It's
gotten to 97-98, but it hasn't hit (or gone over) 100. It didn't last
year or the year before that either. I think maybe it did 3 years ago
or so, but I may have just dreamed that. The humidity is higher than
a lot of places, but this isn't the furnace some people imagine,
especially given our latitude. I think it gets hotter and more
miserable in places like New York (city), Chicago or Washington, DC.
By the way, we did get almost 1.5 inches of rain yesterday, and now
the big pond by the house (which had almost dried up) is back to being
a giant mud puddle. Maybe if we get 20 or 30 more inches it will fill
up.

Galen Hekhuis

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:43:08 EDT, "DKat" wrote:

we have had 100% humidity and temperatures above 90F on long island

We call that rain. ;-)

Prior to agriculture I'm sure our humidity was similar to Phoenix way back
when. Now we're use to anything under 20%. We don't get sticky till it hits
30%. ;-)

Sounds like hubby needs to take a vacation in a desert. Low humidity one
can work out in the shade in the high 80's to 90F w/o noticing sweat
(unless you're hot flash prone, when only a stiff breeze helps). And then
at higher temps one can turn on overhead misters and actually feel cold
when a breeze comes up. ;-) ~ jan
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Zone 7a, SE Washington State
Ponds: www.jjspond.us

DKat wrote:
the fact that you have such a high humidity in a desert is to me a crime
against the environment but i'm not going to get on my soap box and rant
against the insanity of phoenix requiring people to grow lawns...


I'm confused??! The high 25-35% is due to the jet stream patterns
bringing Gulf of Mexico or Gulf of Cortez moisture during the monsoon
season. Nothing to do with lawns. Required to have lawns, never heard
of it in the 15 yrs I've lived here??? They are doing their best to
have them torn out and replaced with zeriscaping with low moisture planting.

Now we do have a lot of lawn (people from back East seem to insist on
it) and golf courses, but that has little to do with the humidity.
Majority of yards are like mine, gravel-80%, small lawn for dog-10%,
pool-10%. I'm converting most of my lawn to patio and my pool to pond
and veggie filter.

Chip

Triple digits here this weekend too.
DH is spending his second weekend camping with the
scouts down on a river delta. Last weekend we had a fierce
thunderstorm move
in on them, this weekend they get the triple digits.

k :-)

more rain as I look out the window. the mosquitoes are hellatious and I dont think
we have seen more than a couple in nearly 10 years. we had about 10" when the floods
were hitting the midwest. And yesterday was our first 85+ day all year. we are 6
blocks from the big puddle (L. Michigan) and it is humid nearly all the time.
Happily, I like humidity, my skin likes humidity especially after the freeze dry of
winter. sigh. school starts next week. time to gear up. Ingrid

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:21:50 EDT, wrote:

winter. sigh. school starts next week. time to gear up. Ingrid

Now that's a crime.... Teaching summer school, I hope the hours are
shorter. ~ jan
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Zone 7a, SE Washington State
Ponds: www.jjspond.us

On Jun 26, 11:53 am, Chip wrote:
W Dale wrote:

Humidity today is 11%.



How's it feel to be so humid? If we get above 10% here in Phoenix
during May-Aug we feel sticky. Aug-Sept we get the "Monsoon" season and
can reach as high as 25%-35%.

Chip

LOL! It feels GREAT! You see, I was born and reared in Laurel, MS.
And while I have acclimated to the Rockies, I do miss the moisture of
the deep south. I think I would just dry up and blow away there in
Phoenix!

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 15:24:34 EDT, LeahMarie
wrote:

On Jun 26, 11:53 am, Chip wrote:
W Dale wrote:

Humidity today is 11%.



How's it feel to be so humid? If we get above 10% here in Phoenix
during May-Aug we feel sticky. Aug-Sept we get the "Monsoon" season and
can reach as high as 25%-35%.

Chip

LOL! It feels GREAT! You see, I was born and reared in Laurel, MS.
And while I have acclimated to the Rockies, I do miss the moisture of
the deep south. I think I would just dry up and blow away there in
Phoenix!

I used to live right down the road in Hattiesburg, MS. I was born in
Biloxi. Southern Mississippi got too cold for me, so I moved to
Florida. :^) Anyway, we closed out the month here with a bit over an
inch of rain bringing us to 5.96 inches for June. That's close enough
to 6 inches for me. It's a lot more than we got last year and if we
get another 20-30 inches we just might bust this drought. I can now
look at the big pond by the house and actually see water in it! It's
a long way from being full, but at least it isn't just mud anymore.