What's the weather like in your area 2

Genghis Cant

Wet day here. The place is in slop. The wind has died down now, it's calm with light rain.

Mooooo

Strong whore of wind blowing now driving rain with it. Feel for lads with no power

Dickie10

is this the earliest onset of "winter" you lads have ever seen? i would be shocked if anyone will have cattle out after this weekend so it really is the start of winter farming. once your feeding cattle in the shed it begins

tanko

Winter started a month or two ago on lots of farms.

Dozer1

rotten here all evening places floating last cow calved this evening outside got soaked bringing her in.
cattle going in saturday

patsy_mccabe

But do guys have enough fodder? I'm already thinking about buying in 1/2 tonne bags of meal to stretch out the silage.

Dunedin

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

But do guys have enough fodder? I'm already thinking about buying in 1/2 tonne bags of meal to stretch out the silage.

It's more the slurry storeage that worries me. If I put in now, wouldn't have a hope of lasting til spreading date in January

_Brian

Ground is just consistency of mouse now, even light stock are hacking it up.

Lady Haywire

_Brian wrote: »

Ground is just consistency of mouse now, even light stock are hacking it up.

Lovely crunchy, furry ground!

Squeak :pac::D

Muckit

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

But do guys have enough fodder? I'm already thinking about buying in 1/2 tonne bags of meal to stretch out the silage.

There's silage trailer loads of fermented pit silage going the roads goodo round here. Good to see lads using their heads and buying now rather than next spring. This thing of praying for a miracle doesn't usually work out.

TITANIUM.

Dunedin wrote: »

It's more the slurry storeage that worries me. If I put in now, wouldn't have a hope of lasting til spreading date in January

I'm in the same boat. If I want have storage till the middle of January I'll have to keep cows or till at least the middle of November. I might have to try to keep the spring calvers out somewhere I don't mind tearing up, and put a round feeder with um. And house the autumn calvers.
Loads of grass to graze yet. The clean out is poor at the moment.

whelan2

TITANIUM. wrote: »

I'm in the same boat. If I want have storage till the middle of January I'll have to keep cows or till at least the middle of November. I might have to try to keep the spring calvers out somewhere I don't mind tearing up, and put a round feeder with um. And house the autumn calvers.
Loads of grass to graze yet. The clean out is poor at the moment.

Are we all not supposed to have enough storage for the closed period?

patsy_mccabe

What is going on with Met Eireann? On their site they issue a Yellow warning for Saturday for guts of up to 130kph but the little window with the map of Ireland only shows 50kph.

Buford T. Justice XIX

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

What is going on with Met Eireann? On their site they issue a Yellow warning for Saturday for guts of up to 130kph but the little window with the map of Ireland only shows 50kph.

Dublin windspeed.:rolleyes:

TITANIUM.

whelan2 wrote: »

Are we all not supposed to have enough storage for the closed period?

Of course we all are, in a perfect world.
If you had your cattle in from the start of October day and night would you have enough storage till the middle of January? Or Feb or march? Remember we shouldnt put out slurry if there's heavy rain forecast.

We used to have a large open tank and we had no problem with storage. But the old fella threw a slatted shed up over it and the new tank is not as big.

whelan2

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Of course we all are, in a perfect world.
If you had your cattle in from the start of October day and night would you have enough storage till the middle of January? Or Feb or march? Remember we shouldnt put out slurry if there's heavy rain forecast.

We used to have a large open tank and we had no problem with storage. But the old fella threw a slatted shed up over it and the new tank is not as big.

In our county you have to have to have enough storage. We have enough to last us in to February. Dont think it's fair that it's a different rule for each county

tomwaterford

Just starting milling down now

Buford T. Justice XIX

I spent the last few hours with a road saw cutting concrete in the collecting yard for a digger to break and dig for foundations for a shed.

I don't think I have ever been as wet:(

Genghis Cant

Just started raining here now. Noticeable cooler too.
Yesterday made 22mm of rain around these parts.

Parishlad

Horrible day here. Started off ok but from lunchtime it has gradually gotten worse. Wet and cold here now, not very windy though at the moment.
All cattle in from tomorrow. Have a herd test (3rd one this year!! :mad: ) next week so was going to have to round them up anyway. So once they are in they are gonna stay in!

Reggie.

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

I spent the last few hours with a road saw cutting concrete in the collecting yard for a digger to break and dig for foundations for a shed.

I don't think I have ever been as wet:(

Yeah but I bet there was no dust

Buford T. Justice XIX

Reggie. wrote: »

Yeah but I bet there was no dust

Yeah, focus on the positives;)

Reggie.

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Yeah, focus on the positives;)

Always my friend always. I've learned that with age

Bullocks

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

I spent the last few hours with a road saw cutting concrete in the collecting yard for a digger to break and dig for foundations for a shed.

I don't think I have ever been as wet:(

Alot easier than bending over with a consaw though . Them jobs are all wet gear jobs regardless of the weather .
I cored 22 holes over the last two days , used 2 sets of wet gear swopping over when one would get saturated

grange mac

Bullocks wrote: »

Alot easier than bending over with a consaw though . Them jobs are all wet gear jobs regardless of the weather .
I cored 22 holes over the last two days , used 2 sets of wet gear swopping over when one would get saturated

Bantry square on a friday....picked up 2-sets breathable watetproofs for 100.....they actually work.....its the sweat is the issue mostly with rain gear.....

whelan2

Raining

naughto

Lovely day here sun out very mild

TITANIUM.

Raining all night and absolutely bucketing it down all morning. Even high dry ground is in absolute sh1te .

charolais0153

Cleared up now was awful last night and this morning. Floods in every field

sea12

Very wet here. Land gone shocking wet in a few days. Pools of water even in good land

White Clover

An awful night continuing with an awful day. Strong south westerly going west with horizontal driving rain. All cattle inside, and glad of it!

Surely be some landslides around after all this continuous heavy rain over the past 2 or 3 months?

Reggie.

Strong wind with a lot of rain

davidk1394

The gusts of wind here would blow a traveller off his cousin

mahoney_j

davidk1394 wrote: »

The gusts of wind here would blow a traveller off his cousin

After the last 6 days that’s the best symposis of the weather I’ve heard yet !!!!!

TITANIUM.

Still raining. Could have kept cows out well into December last year if I had the grass. So this year I said I'll be clever and build up a good bank of it. Now I have the grass but not the weather. Unless there's some drastic change the year is finished.

SuperTortoise

Mild in the north west, few showers overnight and this morning, the very driest of land around here is saturated.

Reggie.

Not too bad a morning here but a lot of water about

CloughCasey1

Reggie. wrote: »

Not too bad a morning here but a lot of water about

Great drying today here. Pity rain promised again tonight.

Mooooo

Pissing rain again

Buford T. Justice XIX

Mooooo wrote: »

Pissing rain again

Thank God for that, the dust was getting to be a serious problem:(

Reggie.

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Thank God for that, the dust was getting to be a serious problem:(

I'd say dust won't be an issue till at least next April

Buford T. Justice XIX

Reggie. wrote: »

I'd say dust won't be an issue till at least next April

Looking that way alright. I've holes dug for concrete for the foundations for a shed and I'd say I'll have to bucket them out before the readymix arrives.

Floki

Wasn't too bad of a day after the rain cleared this morning.
Got to 15c down at the coast.

Was down at Kilmore Quay today and it must have been fairly dramatic down there judging by the evidence of how far and high the seawater got to.
Plants and grass, miles inland have gotten burnt by the spray on the wind.

Further ahead it looks like a few polar plunges of cold air is on the cards with the first one next weekend.
Snow in Scotland possible.

Edit: a two thousand year old remains of a woman were left exposed by the storm underneath a wooden walkway at Kilmore Quay. The remains were removed to the National Museum.

Base price

Frost on the windscreen the morning.

davidk1394

First cold morning here. Heavy fog aswell

whelan2

Cold,dry morning

_Brian

whelan2 wrote: »

Cold,dry morning

Same here.
Well, that’s what it looks like out the window.

Bleating Lamb

Looks like there is rain coming on Saturday but it has being dry almost all week here in NW for the first time since July!!
You could actually see the land has soaked a bit,alas Saturday looks like undoing it.

Reggie.

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Looks like there is rain coming on Saturday but it has being dry almost all week here in NW for the first time since July!!
You could actually see the land has soaked a bit,alas Saturday looks like undoing it.

Yeah great day today. Not a breath of wind out or anything

blue5000

Bleating Lamb wrote: »

Looks like there is rain coming on Saturday but it has being dry almost all week here in NW for the first time since July!!
You could actually see the land has soaked a bit,alas Saturday looks like undoing it.

Such a good quote you repeated it twice. dry start again here. Have bulls in a shed drinking rainwater out of the 'fish tank' and I had to top it up 3 times this week with the hose. Some ppl are predicting a cold winter -11C being talked about.