Today, here in the NE, we are experiencing a rather windy (from N) dry day.

gorgi, that's what we've been experiencing for the last three months. I have to water daily to keep them alive. Day before yesterday I moved all of my potted figs under a large mulberry tree out of the sun completely, because I'm afraid if I miss one watering they would die. Yesterday afternoon they didn't look as stressed as the soil was still slightly moist. The temps have been brutal hitting 97 degrees yesterday, and the wind has finally let up a bit, but not much. We've been having constant winds in the neighborhood of 15 to 25 miles per hour seems like forever. Good luck with yours.
"gene"

It's so windy right now in So. MA. that I keep checking every half hour to make sure they haven't blown over.

yes I agree I almost lost a young black mission all the leaves were dried up I quickly hit the overhead water. I just got done healing in more pots as the trees that were healed in 4-6 inches were looking fine the ones just sitting on top of the ground were stressed and suffering.  My trees get watered twice a day with overhead on some drip system on others.

I had to move my hardy chicago off of my pool deck for fear of it snapping in half!!!

Low humidity and warm temps combined with wind is basically what you have when you put some thing in a convection oven. By circulating the air, you increase its ability to transfer heat and siphon off moisture. That is also why you can't just set your irrigation on a timer and for get it. The conditions change from day to day.

Warm/hot and dry is the standard during the New Mexico growing season. Things do get dehydrated quickly, something Leon and Jose also can attest to. 

Same here without any rain at all. This was the most windy spring that I can remember. Luckily the wind has died down for the last couple days and the "weather guys" say we may get back to our normal thunderstorms caused by daytime heating next week, which is normal for us. Sure hope they are right. In the meantime, water, water, water!Good luck with your figs, guys

Here in Northern Ohio,We've had two months of heavy rain.
The past seven days it's been humid with heavy winds as many of you on the east coast.
Most of my breva's have fallen off.It's been an unusal spring for most of us.

GOOD LUCK
Phil

We went from having a rain event of from 1 to 3 days with 2 or 3 days inbetween the events.  To haven't had a drop in over a week.  Our temp went from low 60's for a high to mid 90's with just one day of 80's.  Odd in the temp. not so odd for the rain.  Big high pressure dome over us which is quite typical for us.  You can always tell - little to no wind, high humidity and hazy.  Just had to start watering pots 2 days ago.  Had some Oak Leaf Hydrangea that were wilting.  On the good side, The water levels in the rivers are getting to normal and they are not generating as much through the dams - SO it means just about time to break out the waders and go fly fishing. 

wow a fellow fly fisher theres nothing better than strapping on the waders and grabbing my leonard bamboo with the hardy reel and tricking those finicky wild trout!!!

Near Austin, it's been business as usual... DRY, HOT AND WINDY!

For the past three weeks we've had high temps above 90F with three days above 100F, and nothing below 95F in sight.  The winds have died down to about 15-20 mph, but we are still in an "exceptional" drought.  We have not had any substantial rain in several years.  Even last year's tropical storm barely made a dent in the deficit.  The ground has cracks an inch wide and 6"+ deep.

I have heavily mulched all of my trees, and it seems to be helping a lot with moisture control.  I watered my newly rooted cuttings (planted in ground) today.  The last water they got was last last Tuesday night (05.24) when I watered them and Wednesday (05.25) early in the morning when a storm dropped about .15" in the area.

~james

Yes Mulching is the answer for moisture control.

James,

"an inch wide and 6" deep"?! My crevices can fit my foot and I have some where I cannot even see the bottom! The good news is that there are less toads hopping around (think the rest are at the bottom of these canyons!). You know it's bad when you have to pour a bucket of water over the spot where you need to drive a metal stake or it won't penetrate! lol

go4broek and james - I remember them canyons.  Played a lot of softball years ago in your area.  The better fields were ok, but at times we'd play in tournaments sponsored by some beer hall - and the field would be "out back" - meaning "not much more than a cow pasture".  You learn to map out the cracks to try not to turn an ankle in one.  One time, we were playing somewhere around Gruene.  I was playing left and was coming in for a low linedrive that was going to drop in front of me, so I was timing for a short hop to try to keep the guy on third from scoring.  Running hard, going in, got my glove down, expected to feel the ball hit the glove - but nothing.  Astounded, there was no way I had misplayed the ball, I put on the brakes to run back to retrieve it.  Looked back, but no ball.  I was running around, the short center came over to help.   We couldn't find it.  It had landed in one of the cracks, buried itself and some of the surrounding dirt had covered it up.  All the base runners scored, and the umps had no idea how to call it.  Luckily we won the game anyways and came home with a gaudy 4' trophy. 

Gorgi
Believe me the winds were coming here from South West after weeks of rain, gusting to 50 or 60km. Probably the winds may stop now after felling my good looking Russian Olive tree. In a few weeks it would have filled the neighbourhood with fragrance in the evening. I spent a couple of hours cutting it and leaving it on the curb side because tomorrow is city collection day for garden refuse. Well, I still have one more Russian Olive tree on the other side of the house.
I was confused because the soil in the pots was pretty moist but the fig leaves were drooping during the windy hours when the sun was shining as well.

It was the same here today.  I noticed the new growth drooping and the soil was wet from the rain yesterday.  At one point last night humidity actually went up before the cold front came thru.  It was 91% late yesterday and today it is 51% very windy and it just dried out the pots and just sapped the moisture out of the fig leaves.  I did notice figlets starting to appear on the HC and Marseilles vs blk.

Ottawan,

I was once told it was expected for the leaves to droop during the heat of the day, but if they don't spring back when it starts to cool down in the evening, it is time to water the container.

Ruben, I think the cracks here would be larger if the soil didn't lack integrity from being over-corned (if that's a word).  I'd take a bunch of toads and/or frogs.  The grasshoppers are really starting to take off again.