Hey Jim, recall during the winter when I said we could still get a hot summer. Well it came true and our palms and others are lovin' it.

I am looking forward to the next round of photos.

Some meterologists were calling for another cool summer and I disgreed some on this blog were quoting. No one knows the patterns for sure yet.

Keep the faith.

Latest observation was 2:15pm

97F dewpoint 86F heat index 131F

I said the same thing about this summer,
by the time they come around
to predicting a cool summer
(after 3 in a row)you
gotta figure on it being warm!

Those are great numbers for growth! A heat index of 131F is so unreal! Pretty cool here today but every day in the forecast has daytime high temperatures of 89F or higher and Im sure it will bring lots of humidity too! The plants havent grown much these past 2 days because of the cloudy and rainy conditions.

They will,my plants loved all the rain.

The heat and humidity is amazing,some of the
bananas have leaves where they didn't yesterday.
I water them a lot before something like this so the stress is
less and they really explode with growth during the off peak temps
as they can take full advantage of the warmth evening/night/morning.

Jim-
I graduated from Highschool in 1988. That was the hotest summer I can remember. It got into the 100s regularly from early June trough mid-Agust. Your weather reminds me of that. I started growing palms in 2004 (which hit over 90 once, August 14th 2004, who else in the north-east remembers that date). 2005 was basically uner 90 for a two day stretch in early July and that is the 2nd warmest summer I can remember). Right now we are having as good a conditions as we can. We got 2-3 inches of rain yesterday and today it was hazy and 86. The storms over Wisconsin this evening are supposed to give us a pouring again tommorow evening and the high is supposed to be 92. After that Sun and highs in the high 80s to 90 for a week at least. Very nice, I'm sure it will cool down for you and you will get a terrific September and October. All I can advise is to water as much as you can. Natural heat and rain are everything and we can't control them.

Looks like the ring of fire shifts north a little which should bring rain to the north like Mich,Wisc
and all those dry places in the northeast.

Looks like rain on the way here tonight,back in the 90s tomorrow and at least mid 90s this weekend.

It really is incredible how fast the Bananas/tropicals grow in this weather-77 last night 99F today
one of the Banana plants had a leaf about 4-5' long only opened an inch or so at the top last night
when I woke up this morning it was all the way opened and another was 10" out of the new leaf(-:

My Thai giant did the same thing!

It was still 86F at 11pm with a heat index of 99F

Those dewpoint numbers are unreal - they rival the ones recorded along the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, the place in the world with the highest dewpoints.

You've got to be suffering. I hope you have air conditioning.

Andy -- I remember the summer of 1988 very well, too. It was truly miserable. We had virtually no rain in the Detroit area from late April until late July, and things were really dying with 90 plus degree heat every day.

At least this year we're getting some rain with the heat.

"Cold front" came throug last night and lowered the dewpoints into the upper 60s,
which after yesterday feels like dry Arizona weather!

Still 90f out,palms are loving it,Bananas are out of control,time to fertilize again
with temps running 90-100 the next 10 days-what a summer!

Just hope the rain doesn't shut off!

Not bad here now. It was hotter than you know what earlier but now its nice,

83.4 °F
Scattered Clouds
Humidity: 76%
Dew Point: 75 °F
Wind: 0.0 mph
Wind Gust: 2.0 mph
Pressure: 30.03 in (Steady)
Heat Index: 91 °F
Visibility: 10.0 miles
UV: 1 out of 16
Pollen: 2.80 out of 12
Pollen Forecast new!
Clouds:
Scattered Clouds 4600 ft
Scattered Clouds 5500 ft
(Above Ground Level)
Elevation: 16 ft

Our tropical friendly weather in continueing. After the 2-3 inches of rain we got Wed. It hit a very humid (about 51%) 92 yesterday. The storms that hit Minn. and Wis. hit us yesterday evening and we got another couple of inches of rain. The next two days are supposed to be sunny and 89. We've been fairly consisant in falling to about 70 at night. More rain Sunday and then highs around 87. All of my palms and bananas are loving it. My tall coconut and bottle palms seem to be loving it the most. 72 and sunny at the moment with 73% humidity. The past 4 days or so are as ideal conditions up here for tropical plants I can remember since I started growing palms in 2004.

Yup, I had a nice rain last night too here in the Bloomfields. It tapered off south of about I-94 in Wayne County. Clarkston to my north got 2 plus inches in about an hour.

Definitely the best weather for these things in several years. Hot but NOT dry. The only bad part is it makes it uncomfortable to do a lot of yard work in the heat. I've been doing my best to keep up, but it requires frequent breaks and that slows things down.