We need rain badly

Conmaicne Mara

bob charles wrote: »

best news I heard all day, only Ken seems to be blown in whatever direction the wind is heading

Same fella got banned off the weather forum on here I read. Hawking his wares and fairly wrong fairly often on the prediction front.

Viewtodiefor

reilig wrote: »

Great news lads. Ken Ring predicts that this high pressure which has given us dry weather for the last 2 weeks is going to remain over Ireland. While the next week will see light thunderstorms for a good bit of the country, he expects that temperatures will rise again after July 30th to the mid 20's and into august. In fact, he predicts that we will only see 2 days of rain for the whole month of August and that the reminants of the high pressure are likely to be with us until mid september.

Isn't that just fantastic news?!!!! :D

Did I not predict this on one of these threads recently?? And no one really took any notice of me! Except Sam kade who was wondering how I knew that!

darragh_haven

bob charles wrote: »

if thats all that comes its will burn everything to a cinder, if we get under 15mm of rain it will cause serious damage if we get intense heat again.

We only got 5 or 6mm. You'd never think we had any rain fell now. Its a massive evening. I was talking to my dad and he said we got no rain out on the farm. Very localised rainfall it seems

RobertKK

Ken Ring can give you weather forecasts upto 2019. Based on the Moon.

Can't believe how many people actually believe his forecasts. if you keep predicitng things you are bound to be right sometimes.

Marooned75

RobertKK wrote: »

Ken Ring can give you weather forecasts upto 2019. Based on the Moon.

Can't believe how many people actually believe his forecasts. if you keep predicitng things you are bound to be right sometimes.

Is he not right so far this year?

Odelay

Tend to look at Ken Ring like a stopped clock, always right twice a day.
He gets somethings right some wrong, but hey, that can be the nature of weather, it can be just so localised.

bob charles

Ken "who talks thru his" Ring

Sam Kade

Marooned75 wrote: »

Is he not right so far this year?

No he got the spring all wrong as he predicted lots of rain. Someone on here or maybe some other forum told me that he got his almanac and that he got it right for the year. Maybe he is putting a few different forecasts on the go at the same time and then harps on about the one that comes true I'll predict that we will get a mild wet winter and compete with viewtodiefor

Marooned75

What about the Donegal postman any gallery on what he has to say

bob charles

Sam Kade wrote: »

No he got the spring all wrong as he predicted lots of rain. Someone on here or maybe some other forum told me that he got his almanac and that he got it right for the year. Maybe he is putting a few different forecasts on the go at the same time and then harps on about the one that comes true I'll predict that we will get a mild wet winter and compete with viewtodiefor

the story goes of when old Moore of Old Moore's Alamach was on his death bed he said to his son, whatever you do, dont forecast snow in July:D

tabby aspreme

We just had RAIN in Kildare , lovely big drops lasted about 20 seconds , livin in hope

Western Pomise

Just had absolute cloudburst here in the whest for 15 mins.....will help refill streams slightly.

Dampintheattic

Nice bit of rain last night. Slow spitting rain for an hour or so last evening. Cloud burst between 8 and 9 o'clock. Plenty showers during the night. Good long spell of light rain this morning early.
Must keep my eyes peeled for mushrooms:cool:

just do it

The importance of soil organic matter has also been evident in NZ this season (2012) with reports stating that the soils with higher organic matter were slower to be affected in the beginning of the drought period and faster to respond coming out of the drought.

From here: http://www.nuffieldinternational.org/rep_pdf/1371541884Gareth-Davies-report-2012.pdf He tells you how to improve it so go read and stop complaining

restive

We need to change the name of this thread to "we need sunshine badly".

Rained overnight here, dark skies this morning.

delaval

restive wrote: »

We need to change the name of this thread to "we need sunshine badly".

Rained overnight here, dark skies this morning.

Rain baby rain

Conmaicne Mara

delaval wrote: »

Rain baby rain

Did you get any yet?

delaval

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Did you get any yet?

I am away on hols.

Sitting on a balcony in 26 beautiful blue skies.

Lots of rain at home, bale feeding should be finished tomorrow.

bob charles

delaval wrote: »

bale feeding should be finished tomorrow.

So much for being in a crisis that you can stop feeding bales after a couple of wet days. I fear for some of you lads on dry ground that it might not be perfect for grazing for over 300 days a year

Conmaicne Mara

bob charles wrote: »

So much for being in a crisis that you can stop feeding bales after a couple of wet days. I fear for some of you lads on dry ground that it might not be perfect for grazing for over 300 days a year

Starve on bad land they would Bob, starve

bob charles

Conmaicne Mara wrote: »

Starve on bad land they would Bob, starve

The fodder crisis from last winter still isnt over on many wet farms, even after a months sunshine. One days rain and all is averted for others:rolleyes:

Dampintheattic

delaval wrote: »

I am away on hols.

Sitting on a balcony in 26 beautiful blue skies.

Lots of rain at home, bale feeding should be finished tomorrow.

What's a balcony

thetiredfarmer

Smashing cloud burst here ..I have enough rain now!!

TireeTerror

It was pissing down all last night for hours here in Louth. Lovely big lightning strikes too. I saw the first flash around 1am and ran out to bring the horses into the stables!

I swear the fields are greener already!

td5man

thetiredfarmer wrote: »

Smashing cloud burst here ..I have enough rain now!!

Same here.

hugo29

last evening was like last year again

today is beautiful and warm the way we want it for the next month

Milton09

Got rained off at the slurry yesterday, walked a field at 8 this morning, 25-50mm of flashes of water in places, unreal how quickly land can get wet.

just do it

Rain in North KK

delaval

There will be no rain tomorrow as we have enough 'till Monday

KatyMac

Mods! Please, please, please delete/hide/blow up this thread! The very name is annoying when I look out at the grey skies, mucky drizzle and cows with younger calves all in the shed to get dry. I want sun, blue skies and warm(ish) weather until late September at the very least.

whelan1

spoke with a lad yesterday, he was saying he needs rain, that he has had feck all all summer and is feeding....anyone else having this problem?

freedominacup

whelan1 wrote: »

spoke with a lad yesterday, he was saying he needs rain, that he has had feck all all summer and is feeding....anyone else having this problem?

Back on bales yesterday. AFC is around 270 with SR of around 3.5/ha. I have re-seeding that's at min a month from grazing and second cut after arable that's not cut. When these are back in the rotation I'll be back to around 2.3 sr. Growth has slowed dramatically in the past week and no rain in the forecast for another week. I thought a week ago that we would be bringing a few paddocks into the second cut based on grwoth rate but as I said we had to bring in bales yesterday.

maxxuumman

Grass motoring here, getting the occasional shower every few days, but 2 things that surprised me in the last few days. Grass under trees dead from lack of moisture. And we ploughed 10 acres a few days ago for reseeding, ground was hard as flint and the sod turned up turned into sand.

tabby aspreme

Grass only really started to grow here last week , 90 mm of rain fell so far this month which is not a lot considering the heat we had