Soil temperature in Preston, England
Soil temperature
15.1°C59°F
at 6cm — germination depth
Cooling over the next 11 days.
Seeding conditions are open — soil is 15.1°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 |
Soil temperature at 6cm in Preston, England is currently 15.1°C, and falling about 1.8°C over the next 11 days. That depth matters because it is where grass seed sits and where roots start working, and it lags air temperature by days — which is why a warm afternoon here tells you very little on its own.
Lawns in this area are typically perennial ryegrass with fescue, which is what most lawns round here are sown with. That blend needs the soil to hold above 9°C before seed germinates reliably. Seeding conditions are open — soil is 15.1°C at 6cm and holding above 9°C.
9 of the next 10 days are good mowing days. The other one is held back by wet grass or soft ground. As for the weekend: nothing doing. conditions never quite get there. And nothing else in the next 10 days either.
Nothing in the current forecast for Preston opens a sensible window. The ground reads as soft after 44mm rain over the last week, and that is usually what decides it at this time of year.
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 16.1°C cooling to 14.2°C
Wednesday 2 September: Not worth it. No — 0.5mm of rain falling.
Wednesday 2 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.5mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dampraining now
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground soft44mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.84
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature15°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light7 km/h
Limiting factor:grass wetness
Thursday 3 September: Good. No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
Thursday 3 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated57mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.93
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature17°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light18 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 4 September: Good. No — 0.9mm of rain falling.
Friday 4 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.9mm of rain falling.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 4 hours ago
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated75mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.77
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature15°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light20 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Saturday 5 September: Good. No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
Saturday 5 SeptemberConfident
No — 0.1mm of rain falling.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 0 hours ago
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated77mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.69
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light8 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.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated77mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.92
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature16°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light20 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Monday 7 September: Good. No — 1.8mm of rain falling.
Monday 7 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 1.8mm of rain falling.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated76mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.68
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature14°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light15 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Tuesday 8 September: Good. No — 0.5mm of rain falling.
Tuesday 8 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 0.5mm of rain falling.
- Poor:Grass wetness
- Grass dryrain earlier today
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated82mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing wellgrowth potential 0.65
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature13°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light18 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Wednesday 9 September: Good. No — 1.5mm of rain falling.
Wednesday 9 SeptemberReasonably confident
No — 1.5mm of rain falling.
- Marginal:Grass wetness
- Grass drydried off since a shower 5 hours ago
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated117mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.40
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light21 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Thursday 10 September: Good. No — ground saturated, 114mm rain over the last week.
Thursday 10 SeptemberLow confidence this far out
No — ground saturated, 114mm rain over the last week.
- Good:Grass wetness
- Grass dryno rain since Wednesday
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated114mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.40
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature11°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light4 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
Friday 11 September: Good. 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
- Poor:Ground firmness
- Ground saturated86mm rain over the last week
- Good:Growth
- Growing steadilygrowth potential 0.49
- Good:Temperature
- Temperature10°C
- Good:Wind
- Wind light11 km/h
Limiting factor:ground firmness
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