Making History!

This morning the LA Times reported the high temperature yesterday, according to the National Weather Service weather stations, for the 48 continental states was in Santa Clarita. It was reported as 95 degrees!! We have a weather station at the golf course which is located adjacent to the Maintenance facility. Yesterday our weather station reported a high temperature of 94.6 degrees and a low temperature of 39.4. Yep that is right 39.4! Pretty darn close to temperatures where we will start having frost delays. We tend to have cooler temperatures due to the fact that we are located at one of the lowest points in the valley. It goes back to the concept wher warm air rises and cool air settles. Degree changes that exceed 55 degrees in one day are pretty extreme. Typically weather like this is good for growing grapes, but in the mean time we will continue to try and grow quality turfgrass.
So we are left with the question: is this global warming or global cooling?
One more weather related topic. Long range forecast, meaning the next 7 to 10 days shows a chance of rain. This would be great for the golf course as over the past week we have fertilized everything and reseeded areas that were thin. Let's keep are fingers crossed that mother nature will give our area of the country some much needed rain.