Dr. Arthur DeGaetano, Director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center, joins the show to discuss growing degree day accumulation in the Spring, and the annual variation in application windows for poa seedhead control and pre-emergent herbicides.

The show then moves to synthetic turf, with a primer on WHY synthetic turf gets so much hotter than natural grass. Wet bulb globe temperature is used by many governing bodies to determine activity levels for youth athletes, but does this account for heat stress when playing on synthetic turf? All that, and more on this episode of the Cornell Turf Show

Cornell ForeCast website: https://turf.eas.cornell.edu

Wet Bulb Globe Temperature: https://www.weather.gov/tsa/wbgt