Tag Archives: evapotranspiration

Summer Solstice: longest day, highest sun, end of spring, beginning of summer 2025-06-20

We’re in the season of evapotranspiration now, when we may get as much rain as in winter, but it evaporates or transpires from leaves, leaving less in rivers and springs.

Today is the Summer Solstice. At high noon the sun will be as far north as it will get all year, ditto when it rises and sets. The actual solstice is 10:42 p.m. EDT, when the sun’s axis is pointed the most towards the sun.

From then on is astronomical summer, until the Fall Equinox, which will be September 22, 2025, when the lengths of day and night will be most close to equal.

[Seasons and the orbit of the Earth --NASA]
Seasons and the orbit of the Earth –NASA

If you like hot, join us tommorrow for Florida Campsites to Allen Ramp, Withlacoochee River 2025-06-21.

There’s also meteorological summer, which Continue reading →

Valdosta rainbarrels to reduce runoff

Gretchen got a rainbarrel from the City of Valdosta, I got some concrete blocks, we set the barrel on the blocks and connected it to a PVC pipe from a raingutter. In about 20 minutes of rain, the 50-gallon rainbarrel was full. We don’t even live in Valdosta, but rainbarrels are also about preventing sewage spills; read on.

City of Valdosta Stormwater Division, Raining
Photograph: John S. Quarterman at Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia.

Within an hour we had a hose hooked up and we used some of the water in transplanting trees.

Video, more pictures, and more links to materials from the city of Valdosta and the state of Georgia on a separate LAKE blog post.

Part of Valdosta’s incentive for this Stormwater Education Outreach can be inferred from Continue reading →