Check Out Local Soil Temperatures

The periodical cicadas will emerge when soil temperatures reach around 64 F. Spectrum Technologies which manufactures and distributes affordable, leading-edge measurement information technology to the agricultural market throughout the world is monitoring local soil temperatures on their web site at http://www.specmeters.com/cicada_2007/index.html.

Spectrum is headquartered in Plainfield, Illinois.

The National Weather Service also offers daily soil temperature readings at the 4 inch level under bare soil and under sod.

Posted by Ron Wolford at 1:46 PM |