What's the temperature where you are???

[Jenbirdee]

I get the degree symbol on screen by using voice to text 5° 10° 20° 30° 40°, 50° etc. etc. etc.°

 

[janiedoe]

Tuesday 2nd of July 12.31p.m. Grey cloud cover / sunny gaps. 11.1 / 14.8kph SW, Hg 48%, 14C / 57.2F top of 15C / 59F. Showers.

Moon is 16.9% New Moon period

Gascoyne rains, a washout for tomato growers​

2 hours 56 mins ago​

Dinh is expecting to lose up to 70 per cent of his tomato crops (ABC Rural: Sophia Alston)

Dinh Nyugen’s 35-acre tomato farm is a muddy mess, rainwater collects in huge brown puddles dotted with bruised, splitting fruit.

Heavy, sporadic rains have dumped an accumulative total of 104.4 millimetres / 4iches + of water across his farm this June, marking the demise of his crops.

“After the rain [from the past two weeks], we lost more than seventy per cent of our patches"”.

The rain from the past few weeks have left the ground sodden and unable to soak up any more moisture causing flooding throughout his farm.

He says aside from flooding of his plants, the mud has made it impossible to set foot in the paddocks

“for the next three or four days we cannot work…we have to wait for it to dry up [before we can get back in and pick]”

Although, upon first inspection, many of the fruit looks intact, Dinh notes the next few days will see his fruit ripen without the ability to pick any of it.

Looking across his paddocks he estimates the total loss to be somewhere in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

“Makes me feel bad because like all the expenses we put it there now is gone. Now we need to get back the profit for our expenses”

It’s not all bad news for Dinh however, his roma tomatoes may all have to be scrapped but the cherry tomatoes are still in with a chance, albeit being sold as seconds.

“All the fruit, they turn red and we get very cheap price for that”

Won't change much​

Perth market agent, Luke Burgess, sees produce day in and day out through his business Premier Fresh Perth Market. Although small scale flooding may see a drop in quality of tomatoes from Carnarvon, Luke notes “I can’t see it having any effect at the moment, given demand is low during winter”

Looking to the future of sales he eludes to the fact more rain may be in store for tomato growers, lessening amounts packed in the Gascoyne region but his solution may be to look elsewhere to stock his clients

“[Buyers] They’ll start looking to other areas, like South Australia or Queensland to get fruit from, just because there will damage in Carnarvon’s fruit”

It’s not all misery and woes for tomato growers along the Gascoyne. Although for many of these growers, months of work has been washed out with the rain, days like these see Dinh and his fellow tomato growers come together to eat, drink and discuss hot topics such as the best recipe for their favourite imported snack, coconut fed rat.

I feel terrible for the tomatoe growers, but at least the rats will eat well...oh wait- the rats are the snack- yuck!

 

[janiedoe]

77
97% humidity
High 100 & sunny

 

[Nym]

I feel terrible for the tomatoe growers, but at least the rats will eat well...oh wait- the rats are the snack- yuck!

Yes, hmm, eek!

 

[Nym]

On / off showers all evening.

 

[Nomadicus]

79° and fair

 

[Grannys Backyard Chicks]

80° high 91°
Humidity
Finished morning chores early but I'm still sweating
Wanted to hang towels out on the line today but I don't think they will dry.

 

[kikiruru]

Tuesday

 

[sourland]

75F with a high of 85 predicted - high humidity is back

 

[Debbie292d]

Cold and rainy day today.

62°F
H: 69°F
L: 55°F
Wind: 13 mph which makes it seem colder.