What's the weather like in your area 2

Panch18

Timmaay wrote: »

12mm here over the last 2days. And next week's forecast!! Freedom can you cancel that 200e/cow worth of 1st cut you ordered ha?

Is there rain for next week Tim?

Timmaay

Mortelaro wrote: »

Just 2.6mm in 2 days at Ashford (wi klowweather.com) and about 5mm here 10 miles south of you
I'd well believe your figure though because some beefy showers to the north of my far would not have fallen in either location
It's a perfect and fascinating example of differences over short distances
No doubt about its heaven for grass

Finally invested in a basic rain gauge! We got 5mm of that 12mm in one single 3min shower the other day!

For next week this has just popped up on my yr:

zetecescort

yellow rainfall warning for North and Northwest tonight and tomorrow, up to 25mm

tanko

zetecescort wrote: »

yellow rainfall warning for North and Northwest tonight and tomorrow, up to 25mm

It'll probably rain every day for the next six months now!!!

Mortelaro

Still 16c on my AWS here in East Wicklow, it's a gorgeous evening out there hereabouts

MfMan

Find yr.no to be so inaccurate as to be irrelevant. Met.ie or weather-forecast.com the two best for predicting rainfall.

keepalive213

Rained for 36 hours here. Loads more coming

lab man

keepalive213 wrote:

Rained for 36 hours here. Loads more coming

Wheres here

davidk1394

Nice dry day here now. Rained for the majority of the day yesterday and last night.

Mooooo

Heavy rain yday and blowing a gale now. Dunno what's coming. Mowing a right off till after Tues anyway

Timmaay

8mm of rain yday. Despite the minor annoyance of having to pit 14ac wet, does it get any better than this!!

Mooooo

Timmaay wrote: »

8mm of rain yday. Despite the minor annoyance of having to pit 14ac wet, does it get any better than this!!

Dunno grass quality needs a dry spell just to get paddocks out

whelan2

Who was looking for rain? Have ye enough now?

Buford T. Justice XIX

whelan2 wrote: »

Who was looking for rain? Have ye enough now?

We got very little. Driving across tracks in the field would drive your head out through the roof with all the bouncing.

Splitting a field this evening, I had trouble pushing down the pigtails:(

Timmaay

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

We got very little. Driving across tracks in the field would drive your head out through the roof with all the bouncing.

Splitting a field this evening, I had trouble pushing down the pigtails:(

Ha yeh we have had around 15/20mm the last week, however there was only about 20mm the whole previous month before that, the ground is still very hard in places, especially anywhere that had low grass covers during very sunny times. We are fairly sorted for the most of June in terms of what's growing in front of the cows, however by no means at all are we out of the woods in terms of a possible long spell of heavy buffering (anywhere from early July to mid Oct!). It's always been the way however, for us here in dry spots of the east coast to have enough rainfall alot of the rest of the country has to suffer ha!

Buford T. Justice XIX

Timmaay wrote: »

Ha yeh we have had around 15/20mm the last week, however there was only about 20mm the whole previous month before that, the ground is still very hard in places, especially anywhere that had low grass covers during very sunny times. We are fairly sorted for the most of June in terms of what's growing in front of the cows, however by no means at all are we out of the woods in terms of a possible long spell of heavy buffering (anywhere from early July to mid Oct!). It's always been the way however, for us here in dry spots of the east coast to have enough rainfall alot of the rest of the country has to suffer ha!

Heavy ground is flying it atm but, like you said, places that were after being grazed when there was no rain just slowed right down. It shot up again now so we should be OK for a few weeks but this would be our normal outlook for August, not June.

The paddock I was dividing this evening would be heavier ground than most of the cow grazing block so I was a bit surprised it was hard to put down the pigtails.

whelan2

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

We got very little. Driving across tracks in the field would drive your head out through the roof with all the bouncing.

Splitting a field this evening, I had trouble pushing down the pigtails:(

Still recovering from Liverpool's win....

Buford T. Justice XIX

whelan2 wrote: »

Still recovering from Liverpool's win....

Yeah, should have done it after morning milking but I was a bit tired and emotional, as Eamon Dunphy would put it:D

kk.man

It's not hay making weather yet!

Odyssey 2005

Relentless fooking wind sine last night. Hasn't eased up at all. Shocking altogether

SuperTortoise

If you did'nt know what day of the year it was and you had to take a guess i'd say most around here would say November, shocking evening here in the NW, wind and driving rain, it's cold along with it, fed two bales into a ring feeder today, low on grass where they are and can't shift them until i get a bout of cossidossis under control.
Did'nt look at a forecast, is there anything promised? waiting to knock 15 acres with the last two weeks.

Mooooo

Timmaay wrote: »

Ha yeh we have had around 15/20mm the last week, however there was only about 20mm the whole previous month before that, the ground is still very hard in places, especially anywhere that had low grass covers during very sunny times. We are fairly sorted for the most of June in terms of what's growing in front of the cows, however by no means at all are we out of the woods in terms of a possible long spell of heavy buffering (anywhere from early July to mid Oct!). It's always been the way however, for us here in dry spots of the east coast to have enough rainfall alot of the rest of the country has to suffer ha!

Yeah last year showed the rest of us what ye may go thru however I'd take that any time over wet summers, wet summers cost us a lot more in terms of poor silage and land destroyed or ungrazeable. The spring of 2013 would have been well manageable here if 2012 from may on wasn't such a right off.
Still great weather for growth so far just need dry weather down here to make use of it

_Brian

Heavy showers all morning and two week forecast has rain near every day.

Real balls.

Buford T. Justice XIX

_Brian wrote: »

Heavy showers all morning and two week forecast has rain near every day.

Real balls.

Sheared sheep here today. Overcast and only a light shower since morning.

whelan2

_Brian wrote: »

Heavy showers all morning and two week forecast has rain near every day.

Real balls.

Really. Dry here all day. Silage lads are rowing up now will start drawing in soon. 24 hour wilt. Delighted I chanced it. Had visions of going on holidays in a few weeks with a rotting first cut still to be done.

Mortelaro

whelan2 wrote: »

Really. Dry here all day. Silage lads are rowing up now will start drawing in soon. 24 hour wilt. Delighted I chanced it. Had visions of going on holidays in a few weeks with a rotting first cut still to be done.

Will they get it in this evening? Overnight into tomorrow looks dodgy

whelan2

Mortelaro wrote: »

Will they get it in this evening? Overnight into tomorrow looks dodgy

Ye they will keep going until it is all in and help cover it tomorrow.

Mortelaro

A wet morning here
Mostly light at this stage but could linger on and off for another 12 to 18hrs or so
4.8mm since midnight

If the rain rate stays the same,that'll rise to maybe 10mm

It's a good time to get out some fert if you need to,because after a week of showers things might settle down

davidk1394

Plenty of rain this morning. Stopped an hour ago. Dull and overcast here now

_Brian

Heavy rain all morning in Cavan, still raining away. Ground well wet now.