Watering Increases As Rain Decreases

Watering Increases As Rain Decreases

UNITED STATES—Rain is less abundant and less frequent now that winter has become spring. Humidity is decreasing. Temperatures are increasing. Moisture within both the soil and the air is less abundant than it had been. Irrigation that discontinued as the rainy season began should resume soon. Only supplemental watering compensates for the increasing lack of water. Warmer and drier weather does more than simply deprive vegetation of natural moist…