Sligo, Connacht
Best weekend slot
Saturday midday–5pm
Verdict: Good
ground soft in places — 36mm rain over the last week
Next mow
Tomorrow 1pm–3pm
Verdict: Good
grass dry — dried off since a shower 4 hours ago
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 15.8°C cooling to 13.0°C
Wednesday 2 September: Not worth it. No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
Wednesday 2 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass wetrain earlier today
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft in places26mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.85
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature15°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light10 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Thursday 3 September: Good. 1pm–3pm — grass dry — dried off since a shower 4 hours ago
Thursday 3 September · 1pm–3pmConfident
1pm–3pm — grass dry — dried off since a shower 4 hours ago
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft in places25mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.74
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature14°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light7 km/h
- Sociable hours
- Fine by the neighboursstarts once the dew has burnt off
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Friday 4 September: Not worth it. No — 0.2mm of rain falling.
Friday 4 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.2mm of rain falling.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 0 hours ago
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft in places32mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.61
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature14°C
- Marginal:Wind
- Wind light23 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Saturday 5 September: Good. midday–5pm — ground soft in places — 36mm rain over the last week
Saturday 5 September · midday–5pmConfident
midday–5pm — ground soft in places — 36mm rain over the last week
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 5 hours ago
- Marginal:Ground firmness
- Ground soft in places36mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.56
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light5 km/h
- Sociable hours
- Fine by the neighboursstarts once the dew has burnt off
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Sunday 6 September: Not worth it. No — 3.3mm of rain falling.
Sunday 6 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 3.3mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass wetraining now
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated28mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.74
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature18°C
- Marginal:Wind
- Breezy27 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Monday 7 September: Marginal. No — ground waterlogged.
Monday 7 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — ground waterlogged.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 1 hour ago
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated67mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.61
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature14°C
- Marginal:Wind
- Wind light24 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Tuesday 8 September: Not worth it. No — ground waterlogged.
Tuesday 8 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — ground waterlogged.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated69mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.42
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light17 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Wednesday 9 September: Good. No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
Wednesday 9 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 3 hours ago
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated70mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.36
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light21 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Thursday 10 September: Good. No — ground saturated, 69mm rain over the last week.
Thursday 10 SeptemberLow confidence this far out
No — ground saturated, 69mm rain over the last week.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated69mm rain over the last week
- Marginal:Growth
- Growing slowlygrowth potential 0.33
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light4 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 11 September: Good. No — 0.5mm of rain falling.
Friday 11 SeptemberLow confidence this far out
No — 0.5mm of rain falling.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated63mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.42
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light17 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Soil temperature
14.0°C57°F
at 6cm — germination depth
Cooling over the next 11 days.
Seeding conditions are open — soil is 14.0°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.