What's the weather like in your area 2

Mooooo

Say my name wrote: »

Tis ok.
Waterford and Wexford twill take your load.

You can thank us later.

I'll get a round in after, oh wait......

alps

Cork not going to get much tonight...Rosslare to take the brunt between 1 and 2 am..

Cork rougher tomorrow night between 8 and 9pm..

whelan2

Raining here

Buford T. Justice XIX

https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1296203709853179905?s=19

mengele

How good does maize stand up to very strong wind at this time of year?

Reggie.

mengele wrote: »

How good does maize stand up to very strong wind at this time of year?

Should be ok once the cobs aren't fully developed

_Brian

Plenty of rain for last 90 minutes or so bit very little wind.

keepalive213

Outrageous rain all evening, next 7 days looking wet.. aint that just ****** fantastic

foxy farmer

mengele wrote: »

How good does maize stand up to very strong wind at this time of year?

Ask me again in the morning. I'm too busy praying that mine will be still standing. Ground is wet so it could keel over from the root. Saw plenty of it after Ophelia. Carnage.

whelan2

Well, did ye all survive?

Mooooo

Still driving rain here, power has stated on throughout. Feckin milk lorry hasn't come yet, would be milking if it wasn't for that. Must check sheds they'd be the main thing

corks finest

whelan2 wrote: »

Well, did ye all survive?

Blowing mad in Carrigaline

Wildsurfer

No major damage, just a few tree limbs down. Power is gone though so just hooking up Genny. Mild now, no rain and a strong breeze.

_Brian

Bunch of leaves down and that seems all.
We’re sheltered from winds coming from the south.

NcdJd

_Brian wrote: »

Bunch of leaves down and that seems all.
We’re sheltered from winds coming from the south.

Same where i am near dublin airport. Seem to have escaped tge worst of it again. Looks bad in Cork though from looking at rte.

Little Miss Fairy

Electricity gone. Garden fence down. One cat missing in action (insert sad face here)

orm0nd

Was expecting a peak at 1 am according to windy.com didn't hit until 3.

Junior has spent last 3 hours with chainsaw and tractor and tow chain getting access for the milk lorry whose running a hour and a half late at this stage.

Roadway to paddocks blocked in a couple of place and had to bring the cows in through the silage fields.

No structural damage that I can see other than some sheep fencing flattened with a huge fallen tree.

A big tree down in a field there are a number of sheep in and while I don't have a count I can't see any trapped under it.

It was brief but severe must have been well over a 100 kph to cause the damage it done.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Yellow wind warning for the south and east coast's and yellow rainfall warning for the whole country.
https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1296366546613346304?s=19

Lady Haywire

My apple tree has seen the most carnage, will be tarts for weeks now!
Bit of guttering down on the hayshed, I'd fixed a rib on the sw side of it only yesterday, see a rib on the opposite wall gone. One gate gone, snapped at the hinge but it's a pain in the hole of a gate as someone had the bright idea of screwing 6ft wooden boards onto the gate so it weighs a tonne & I hate it.
Just going to other farm now, expect trees down there.

Reggie.

Very little damage done here thankfully but was serious wind around 3am

leeside11

Have some friends staying in a mobile home in Clonea Waterford, no contact from them atm.

Any idea of the conditions there with the storm..

jaymla627

mengele wrote: »

How good does maize stand up to very strong wind at this time of year?

Still standing, getting it off the field will be the tricky part if ground conditions get much worse

Lady Haywire

Lady Haywire wrote: »

My apple tree has seen the most carnage, will be tarts for weeks now!
Bit of guttering down on the hayshed, I'd fixed a rib on the sw side of it only yesterday, see a rib on the opposite wall gone. One gate gone, snapped at the hinge but it's a pain in the hole of a gate as someone had the bright idea of screwing 6ft wooden boards onto the gate so it weighs a tonne & I hate it.
Just going to other farm now, expect trees down there.

No damage on outfarm but just on the way home I spotted a rogue animal walking down a road. 16 out so stuck them in a field & rang owners. He was fairly happy I caught them so good deed done for the day.

Alibaba

Not too bad now here in SW . A few heavy showers.
Any hope of a bit of fine weather 🙏🙏

wrangler

Lady Haywire wrote: »

My apple tree has seen the most carnage, will be tarts for weeks now!
Bit of guttering down on the hayshed, I'd fixed a rib on the sw side of it only yesterday, see a rib on the opposite wall gone. One gate gone, snapped at the hinge but it's a pain in the hole of a gate as someone had the bright idea of screwing 6ft wooden boards onto the gate so it weighs a tonne & I hate it.
Just going to other farm now, expect trees down there.

OH is freezing them today, peel ,quarter and core them, and immediately puts them into water and lemon juice to stop them going brown,
Then bags them
There's only two of us here so it really saves us from being sick of apple tarts.
She even uses them frozen, as in cuts them up frozen to put in a tart

NcdJd

wrangler wrote: »

OH is freezing them today, peel ,quarter and core them, and immediately puts them into water and lemon juice to stop them going brown,
Then bags them
There's only two of us here so it really saves us from being sick of apple tarts.
She even uses them frozen, as in cuts them up frozen to put in a tart

Hi wrangler

Would that work to prolong the storage of fresh apples ? I pick a few boxes every year but end up throwing out loads of them each week. I don't have a freezer

Neddyusa

wrangler wrote: »

OH is freezing them today, peel ,quarter and core them, and immediately puts them into water and lemon juice to stop them going brown,
Then bags them
There's only two of us here so it really saves us from being sick of apple tarts.
She even uses them frozen, as in cuts them up frozen to put in a tart

Great idea - may try that at the weekend!

Lady Haywire

Any unbruised ones here are wrapped individually in a sheet of newspaper & stored upstairs in the house here, line them out on the wooden floor/tables with none touching. Can keep til late spring that way.
Bruised but good ones get peeled, chopped & stuffed into sterilised jars, then a sugar syrup concoction poured over to seal. These keep same as jam, great with porridge.
When I've the stanley on, I will dry some rings too, then freeze these.
Numerous ways of it, just Dad enjoys the aul glut of apple tarts this time of year

memorystick

Is there much maize damaged?

wrangler

NcdJd wrote: »

Hi wrangler

Would that work to prolong the storage of fresh apples ? I pick a few boxes every year but end up throwing out loads of them each week. I don't have a freezer

You'd need a freezer I'd say, they're only left into the water and lemon juice while they're being prepared to keep the air from them, then they're taken out of the water and put in freezer bags,
My mother used to preserve them in the jars same as Haywire does