whats the weather like in your area?

Reggie.

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Someone up there is fond of you and your hay

Ah we get a light shower the odd time but not enough to cause any harm. Sure if the hay doesn't come we ll get haylage

whelan2

raining

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

raining

Keep it

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Keep it

was going to do a knapsack of weeds so now i will have to powerwash instead, every cloud has a silver lining:)

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

was going to do a knapsack of weeds so now i will have to powerwash instead, every cloud has a silver lining:)

You'll be dry in an hour according to the rainfall radar

WheatenBriar

Decent enough day down here

WheatenBriar

Lashing rain since about 4am in south wicklow

whelan2

WheatenBriar wrote: »

Lashing rain since about 4am in south wicklow

lovely sunny morning

WheatenBriar

whelan2 wrote: »

lovely sunny morning

Yeah saw the sat pic,worth your while looking at it met.ie

Reggie.

Was a great evening yesterday and very sunny morning here so fsr

ABlur

Reggie. wrote: »

Was a great evening yesterday and very sunny morning here so fsr

Reg have you a pic of the 135 and hay bob in action for us wet Clare people with no hope of making hay! Though it looks like we might get a second dry day in a row here.

frogloch

Raining here all morning just beginning to ease off now. Wouldn't have minded much only rang contractor Wednesday evening to cut 5 acres of grass that got ahead of cows Thursday morning. There was no sign of this rain on the forecast then, first I heard of it was last night. God I must sound like a miserable git always giving out.:o

WheatenBriar

Still lashing in East wicklow, radar loop suggest all day
3rd wet day since the end of may which is fair going

blue5000

Took a chance yesterday and went to the beach in Lahinch, lovely evening, fingers crossed it will be dry here for a few hours, 4 ac to wrap.

Reggie.

ABlur wrote: »

Reg have you a pic of the 135 and hay bob in action for us wet Clare people with no hope of making hay! Though it looks like we might get a second dry day in a row here.

Didn't have a chance to take a photo but here's the aftermath


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Oh and it's 24 deg here at the min....sweltering

ABlur

Reggie. wrote: »

Didn't have a chance to take a photo but here's the aftermath


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Oh and it's 24 deg here at the min....sweltering

Thanks Reggie hope those knots are down and out!!

Reggie.

ABlur wrote: »

Thanks Reggie hope those knots are down and out!!

Yeah all 670 of them

frogloch

A c##p still raining. That's a whole wet day. I don't need anymore rain now till 1st jan.

Greengrass1

frogloch wrote: »

Raining here all morning just beginning to ease off now. Wouldn't have minded much only rang contractor Wednesday evening to cut 5 acres of grass that got ahead of cows Thursday morning. There was no sign of this rain on the forecast then, first I heard of it was last night. God I must sound like a miserable git always giving out.:o

I must be the only one that didn't get caught so
Cut Wednesday and picked yesterday. Gordon and few other have stuff down

frogloch

Greengrass1 wrote: »

I must be the only one that didn't get caught so
Cut Wednesday and picked yesterday. Gordon and few other have stuff down

Did u not get rain Wednesday? It rained in new ross and enniscorthy, but missed us. I should have cut wed eve but then don't have own machinery. I cut yesterday morning as wasn't giving this rain forecast on met eireann or yr.no. Ah hopefully get tomorrow i'll get tj to spread out and row back in.

Greengrass1

frogloch wrote: »

Did u not get rain Wednesday? It rained in new ross and enniscorthy, but missed us. I should have cut wed eve but then don't have own machinery. I cut yesterday morning as wasn't giving this rain forecast on met eireann or yr.no. Ah hopefully get tomorrow i'll get tj to spread out and row back in.

Nope v little. Sprayed off a field that day too. Was only 7 acres I wrapped. Still have 2nd cut to mow

frogloch

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Nope v little. Sprayed off a field that day too. Was only 7 acres I wrapped. Still have 2nd cut to mow

I know people give out about buying machinery and cost, time, diesel. But there are advantages too. You don't see many barley growers who don't own a combine.

Greengrass1

frogloch wrote: »

I know people give out about buying machinery and cost, time, diesel. But there are advantages too. You don't see many barley growers who don't own a combine.

Few things like sprayer fert spreader mower stacker etc are goof to have but definitely very hard to justify having a heap of gear for your own use

frogloch

Greengrass1 wrote: »

Few things like sprayer fert spreader mower stacker etc are goof to have but definitely very hard to justify having a heap of gear for your own use

I wouldn't go any further than that also. But will have to look at getting a mower, then other costs would be per bale. It wouldn't matter if it was a light crop or not. Oh it's finally stopped raining.

whelan2

where can i get the most accurate forecast?

grange mac

whelan2 wrote: »

where can i get the most accurate forecast?

I use yr.no and the satellite images from meteireann.ie not 100% accurate but not bad and much better than "sunshine and showers during the day" ...

whelan2

have silage to mow, tomorrow looks desperate. he said he would mow today and pick up after, looking at the forecast tuesday, wednesday, thursday look ok

Reggie.

whelan2 wrote: »

have silage to mow, tomorrow looks desperate. he said he would mow today and pick up after, looking at the forecast tuesday, wednesday, thursday look ok

Yeah yr is giving a few straight days of settled weather from Tues to Fri I think. Bad next 2 days and the following weekend

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Yeah yr is giving a few straight days of settled weather from Tues to Fri I think. Bad next 2 days and the following weekend

ye think i will put him off til wednesday

WheatenBriar

whelan2 wrote: »

ye think i will put him off til wednesday

Yeah wait until next week
Its a lovely day today but by overnight it will be lashing

darragh_haven

We haven't had a drop of rain since last Monday. It been beach weather almost.
But we had rain almost every day for the 3 weeks before that while some of ye up the country were making hay

trixi2011

Sitting out the back of the house here having a cup of tea and all I can hear if mowers flat out first dry day in weeks not to last unfortunately 30mm promised 4 tomorrow

mahoney_j

Over 20 mm rain forecast here last night ,barely got 5 id say

Miname

Absolutely lashing it here now.

frazzledhome

Miname wrote: »

Absolutely lashing it here now.

Roughly translated Great morning, yum yum

P_Cash

Has to one of the wettest summers for a while in the west,

Heavens opened around 4am, still at it.

Bullocks

P_Cash wrote: »

Has to one of the wettest summers for a while in the west,

Heavens opened around 4am, still at it.

Promised for the day aswell

arctic8dave

Lucky if we had 5 or 6 days completely dry days in July here in mid cork.
Sum rain & thunder/lighting here last night. Calves fcuking everywhere!!!!!!!

Deepsouthwest

mahoney_j wrote: »

Over 20 mm rain forecast here last night ,barely got 5 id say

Something's never change, started raining here around 645 yesterday evening and kept going all night, starting clearing about an hr ago. Woke around 3/4am it was absolutely bucketing at that stage.

WheatenBriar

Still absolutely lashing in east wicklow
Over 19mm since midnight and a howling wind off the Irish sea dragging the temp down to only 9c
Winter

yellow50HX

After easing a bit here now. Was Woken at 3am with it hopping off the windows, didn't get back to sleep till 6:30, back up since 8 and felling very tired now.

Buford T. Justice XIX

A few light showers, about a minute long last night and ground bone dry this morning. A heavy mist for an hour and it's dry and windy now.

Feck Met Eireann, i'm going to sue their asses for not getting the rain they promised:mad:

frazzledhome

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

A few light showers, about a minute long last night and ground bone dry this morning. A heavy mist for an hour and it's dry and windy now.

Feck Met Eireann, i'm going to sue their asses for not getting the rain they promised:mad:

Weather men woeful liars
If we had heeded forecast we wouldn't have any second cut done.

Buford T. Justice XIX

frazzledhome wrote: »

Weather men woeful liars
If we had heeded forecast we wouldn't have any second cut done.

I'm starting to think I'm farming in a little drought pocket at this stage

Reggie.

Nice drop of rain here last night

Username John

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

A few light showers, about a minute long last night and ground bone dry this morning. A heavy mist for an hour and it's dry and windy now.

Feck Met Eireann, i'm going to sue their asses for not getting the rain they promised:mad:

Where are you Buford?

As the lads above said, we had savage rain around 4, but a lot of rain fell all night.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Username John wrote: »

Where are you Buford?

As the lads above said, we had savage rain around 4, but a lot of rain fell all night.

North Kerry, or the Sahara as I'm starting to call it now:p

naughto

The rain woke my young lad around 4 it was hammering off the window. Still raining now not as heavy though.
Reek Sunday has being called off due to the weather first time ever I heard of it. The diehards will sill climb it

Username John

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

North Kerry, or the Sahara as I'm starting to call it now:p

Yeah - I thought so

Amazed that your part of the world doesn't get a good bit of rain to be honest, but there you go...

trixi2011

Rain between showers and showers between rain sums up the weather here today