Waterford, Munster
Best weekend slot
Nothing doing
Verdict: Not worth it
conditions never quite get there.
Monday afternoon is your first decent window.
Next mow
Monday midday–2pm
Verdict: Good
ground soft — 26mm 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 18.5°C cooling to 14.3°C
Wednesday 2 September: Good. No — 0.2mm of rain falling.
Wednesday 2 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.2mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated67mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.97
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature18°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light15 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Thursday 3 September: Good. No — ground soft, 76mm rain over the last week.
Thursday 3 SeptemberConfident
No — ground soft, 76mm rain over the last week.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft76mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.95
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature17°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light12 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 4 September: Good. No — ground soft, 57mm rain over the last week.
Friday 4 SeptemberConfident
No — ground soft, 57mm rain over the last week.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft57mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.73
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature14°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light14 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Saturday 5 September: Good. No — 2.2mm of rain falling.
Saturday 5 SeptemberConfident
No — 2.2mm of rain falling.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Friday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft56mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.50
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature12°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light3 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Sunday 6 September: Good. No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
Sunday 6 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 4 hours ago
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft35mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.90
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature18°C
- Marginal:Wind
- Wind light26 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Monday 7 September: Good. midday–2pm — ground soft — 26mm rain over the last week
Monday 7 September · midday–2pmReasonably confident
midday–2pm — ground soft — 26mm rain over the last week
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft26mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.67
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light10 km/h
- Sociable hours
- Fine by the neighbours
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Tuesday 8 September: Not worth it. No — 0.8mm of rain falling.
Tuesday 8 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 0.8mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass wetrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated31mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.69
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light8 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Wednesday 9 September: Good. No — ground saturated, 39mm rain over the last week.
Wednesday 9 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — ground saturated, 39mm rain over the last week.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft39mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.40
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light19 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Thursday 10 September: Good. 8am–8pm — ground soft — 31mm rain over the last week
Thursday 10 September · 8am–8pmLow confidence this far out
8am–8pm — ground soft — 31mm rain over the last week
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft31mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.40
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°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 11 September: Not worth it. No — 0.3mm of rain falling.
Friday 11 SeptemberLow confidence this far out
No — 0.3mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft30mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.62
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light10 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Soil temperature
15.6°C60°F
at 6cm — germination depth
Cooling over the next 11 days.
Seeding conditions are open — soil is 15.6°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.