The chilly air temperatures this week have not been helpful to soil temperatures. The featured chart presents the daily average four inch depth soil temperature from the Ames ISU Soil Moisture site. This year's data is plotted along with a simple long term average and each individual year is also plotted to give some sense of the data range. Soil temps were riding high early last week with the record warm air temperatures, but have since taken a nose dive with present values back below average like they were back in early May. The good news is that much warmer weather is expected by Friday which will quickly reverse this recent trend.

Voting:
Good = 10
Bad = 0