Kilkenny, Leinster
Best weekend slot
Sunday 8pm–9pm
Verdict: Good
ground soft — 44mm rain over the last week
Next mow
Tomorrow 9am–3pm
Verdict: Good
ground soft — 61mm rain over the last week
The next 10 days
Column height is how mowable the day is; the lighter band is the best stretch within it. The line is soil temperature at 6cm.
9°C — seeding
Soil at 6cm 17.7°C cooling to 13.8°C
Wednesday 2 September: Good. No — ground soft, 50mm rain over the last week.
Wednesday 2 SeptemberConfident
No — ground soft, 50mm rain over the last week.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft50mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.98
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature17°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light9 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Thursday 3 September: Good. 9am–3pm — ground soft — 61mm rain over the last week
Thursday 3 September · 9am–3pmConfident
9am–3pm — ground soft — 61mm rain over the last week
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft61mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.95
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature16°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light6 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 4 September: Good. 7pm–9pm — ground soft — 49mm rain over the last week
Friday 4 September · 7pm–9pmConfident
7pm–9pm — ground soft — 49mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft49mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.67
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature14°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light15 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Saturday 5 September: Good. No — 0.9mm of rain falling.
Saturday 5 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.9mm of rain falling.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Friday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft52mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.38
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light3 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Sunday 6 September: Good. 8pm–9pm — ground soft — 44mm rain over the last week
Sunday 6 September · 8pm–9pmReasonably confident
8pm–9pm — ground soft — 44mm rain over the last week
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain 1 hour ago
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft44mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.89
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature18°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light24 km/h
- Sociable hours
- Your neighbours will remember itstarts once the rain has passed
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Monday 7 September: Good. 8am–2pm — ground soft — 34mm rain over the last week
Monday 7 September · 8am–2pmReasonably confident
8am–2pm — ground soft — 34mm rain over the last week
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft in places34mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.62
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light14 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Tuesday 8 September: Good. No — 0.8mm of rain falling.
Tuesday 8 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 0.8mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass slightly damprain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated37mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.62
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature12°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light5 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Wednesday 9 September: Good. No — ground waterlogged.
Wednesday 9 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — ground waterlogged.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated51mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.32
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light21 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Thursday 10 September: Good. 8am–8pm — ground soft — 37mm rain over the last week
Thursday 10 September · 8am–8pmLow confidence this far out
8am–8pm — ground soft — 37mm rain over the last week
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft37mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.30
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light4 km/h
- Sociable hours
- A bit early or late, but finestarts when it stops being antisocial
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 11 September: Not worth it. No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
Friday 11 SeptemberLow confidence this far out
No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft32mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.49
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light11 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Soil temperature
14.7°C58°F
at 6cm — germination depth
Cooling over the next 11 days.
Seeding conditions are open — soil is 14.7°C at 6cm and holding above 9°C.
Almost every UK and Irish lawn is a ryegrass and fescue mix, whether it was sown or turfed. We assume that, and use9°C as the seeding threshold.
I know what grass I have
The differences are small. Ryegrass is the quickest off the mark; bluegrass is the slowest and wants the warmest soil. Everything else sits between.
| Species | Soil temp | Days |
|---|---|---|
| Perennial ryegrasslikely yours | 8°C | 5–10 |
| Red / chewings fescuelikely yours | 8–10°C | 10–14 |
| Tall fescue | 10–12°C | 10–14 |
| Browntop bentColonial bentgrass | 10–12°C | 14–21 |
| Smooth-stalked meadow grassKentucky bluegrass | 12–13°C | 14–28 |
What this means right now
Forecast from Open-Meteo, refreshed hourly. Soil temperature is modelled, not measured — how that works and where the thresholds come from.