Disease risk event from yesterday

The rain event started on the night of the 8th resulted in about 14 hours of wetness with about 65F in average temperature.  This was infection risk event for downy mildew, Botrytis, Black rot, and Phomopsis.  Also, in the last two nights, the evening thunder storms brought up night time relative humidity, thus, we should keep watching out for downy mildew development.

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