This is a picture of our moisture meter which measures the amount of water in the soil. On a normal day, we try to start out at 20%. Throughout the day water evaporates and we have to add more to the greens to get them through the day.
The number on the moisture meter right now is very high because we recived .8 inch of rain. This is usually not a big deal unless there are 4 days of 85+ degrees and humidity forecasted. Reason being the humidity does not allow for fast evaporation which will cause the soil to stay saturated. This along with the heat will increase the soil temperature of the greens because water loses heat slowly. When the soil temps get around 90 degrees the roots start to decline and rot. This is very bad.
Luckily for us the weather people are never right and the four days at 85 + is now only two days. Yesterday our soil temps were around 80 degrees and the soil surface was cool to the touch. This was because of the patchy clouds that we had all day.
The next few days we will monitor the moisture in the greens and allow them to get down below a 20% on the moisture meter and get back into our normal routine until it rains again.