what is the weather like in your area?

whelan1 · 16-05-2013 6:27pm #1

sun shining here lovely evening, parents where in lyrath estate for a few days and said the hailstones where unreal, so whats it like in your area

buffalobilly · 16-05-2013 6:40pm

Real bad afternoon here in north donegal ground is really saturated you would think it will never dry out do not what will be the end of it no silage no grass looks like no fodder for next winter

st1979 · 16-05-2013 6:51pm

We have missed most of the bad weather ground conditions are perfect. Grass stopped growing last week with the cold but has started growing again. Thank god as am on heavy marl land.

blue5000 · 16-05-2013 6:56pm

Heavy showers on and off here today, fairly warm maybe 15C between the showers. Dry Land is just about navigable in the jeep with 4wd on, wet land is walkable:cool:

Biggest challenge of the day: putting a chin ball marker on an aubrac bull

bbam · 16-05-2013 7:03pm

Hail and rain showers.
7c here at the moment.

Good ground is soft ad poor ground is in a near liquid state.

Viewtodiefor · 16-05-2013 7:23pm

bbam wrote: »

Hail and rain showers.
7c here at the moment.

Good ground is soft ad poor ground is in a near liquid state.

Sunny n feels warm even! Ground hard wind has died down too today .

freedominacup · 16-05-2013 7:31pm

Viewtodiefor wrote: »

Sunny n feels warm even! Ground hard wind has died down too today .

Yeah that. Thankfully.:D

Juniorhurler · 16-05-2013 7:32pm

Sunny and warm. We have both dry land where ground conditions are perfect and heavy marly land which has cattle on it and they are not doing any damage. Grass covers are light. Silage is closed off five weeks almost and is well back on other years.

Timmaay · 16-05-2013 7:44pm

Yep sunny and warmish here. Ground is rock hard! Not much rain over the whole of may, just enough! It would be perfect if the goddam temp was higher and abit more sun, but just not good enough conditions for the massive burst of grass growth that is sooo badly needed.

whelan1 · 16-05-2013 7:48pm

was over to suckler cow about 10 times yesterday... had to put jeep in 4wd in the morning come evening time i didnt have to. local rally club are having a gras rally in our field on sunday, last thing i need

Marooned75 · 16-05-2013 7:55pm

Dry now after a downpour early on

iverjohnston · 16-05-2013 8:03pm

Heavy showers almost every hour here in Cavan. Cavan town area half an inch of hail stones at 4pm

Watched a Hare amble across a silage field, fertilized a fortnight ago, and I could see his paws on the ground......

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sea12 · 16-05-2013 8:22pm

Very heavy showers here today around 4 or 5. Very cold wind. No growth. Was out walking some if the ground. No decking grass coming up. Have enough for a week or 2 but no growth at all coming back up on grazed ground. Meadows are bare even though fertiliser out a month.

moy83 · 16-05-2013 8:55pm

Its wet , I counted eight curlews in a field this evening that we cut silage from in the last week of May last year :eek:
Its looking like its going to lash tonight too .

Dampintheattic · 16-05-2013 8:57pm

Massive downpour in mid Clare this afternoon. Roads flooded.

Alibaba · 16-05-2013 8:59pm

Its absolutely awful here. (Kerry). Day wasn't too bad , couple of showers but there was a thunder shower this eve that lasted at least 1.5 hrs.

I'd say at least half an inch of rain fell then.

Ground is absolutely saturated. Total disaster.

Some guys have no silage ground closed yet - can't even travel now , no grass, no fodder.

No exaggeration - but the situation is desparate in a lot of cases.

GERMAN ROCKS · 16-05-2013 9:01pm

well it was dry inbetween the showers here in cork today

AntrimGlens · 16-05-2013 9:12pm

Nice day here all day, was at Balmoral show and the sun came out in the afternoon and got up to a balmy 12 degrees.:D
no rain for 2 days in a row although saturday is back to downpours i hear

whelan1 · 17-05-2013 5:24am

dry here so far today.....thought there was a heavy downpour at 5.30am but turned out it was the heating coming on.... imagine still using central heating in may

Marooned75 · 17-05-2013 7:33am

Lovely day here so far delighted with regrowth on grazed ground looking at them this morning

mahoney_j · 17-05-2013 8:54am

There's a funny looking thing in the sky beaming down on me this am,could be the sun but not sure as I haven't seen it in a while!!certainly feels a bit warmer fingers crossed it'll stick around and the rain clouds stay well out in the Atlantic.....

mf240 · 17-05-2013 8:58am

Ya almost feels like its turning a corner here this am.

reilig · 17-05-2013 9:03am

mf240 wrote: »

Ya almost feels like its turning a corner here this am.

Savage morning here. The calm before the storm methinks.

pakalasa · 17-05-2013 9:21am

I heard the Cuckoo last night and all the birds were mad singing. It was cold and wet and miserable and I'm thinking - do they know something we don't. Got up this morning and not a cloud in the sky. Have we turned a corner - I hope so.:rolleyes:

raindodger · 17-05-2013 9:21am

beautiful here today but what a pig of a day yesterday.Must have rained an inch between hail and rain.Land is swimming . Cows are into ploughing Dont know what to do with them at this stage. th.ought 12 was bad but this is shaping up to be worse.The south west seems to be getting all the rain maybe we can start farming it and selling it to Dublin

Grecco · 17-05-2013 9:40am

Unbelievable drying today, badly wanted after the flood. Wind has turned to the east as well, this could hopefully turn into a dry spell

bbam · 17-05-2013 9:45am

Bright here in Cavan but was frosty overnight. Was below 0c for 4 hours overnight. Grass was white this morning.
Grass rapidly grazing away but not much regrowth in past week.

braveheart1 · 17-05-2013 1:58pm

Just started flogging rain outside Killarney. With the fine morning i was even thinking about putting out fertiliser. Might as well keep it parked in the shed.

bbam · 17-05-2013 2:05pm

braveheart1 wrote: »

Just started flogging rain outside Killarney. With the fine morning i was even thinking about putting out fertiliser. Might as well keep it parked in the shed.

Well, it aint going to grow anything there..
Always a hard call... but with time ticking away and grass covers slow !!

redzerologhlen · 17-05-2013 5:20pm

Grecco wrote: »

Unbelievable drying today, badly wanted after the flood. Wind has turned to the east as well, this could hopefully turn into a dry spell

I thought the same all day but it's pissing again now

whelan1 · 17-05-2013 5:23pm

still nice here, might even sit out later for a few beers:)

maxxuumman · 17-05-2013 5:34pm

When the sun comes out, nice here, but after a hell of a shower an hour ago. Sun out then pelting hailstones. Rang quarry for 5 loads of stones for paddock gateways. Wrecked, and this is a dry farm. Had planned to go out with Urea today, but giving 10mms of rain tomorrow for here. Fert can wait till Monday.

Marooned75 · 17-05-2013 5:42pm

I see weather is crap 2moro but does it look like a big increase in temps from Sunday,a hint of summer trying to start after an absence of a few years.fingers crossed.

Gosub · 17-05-2013 5:46pm

Evenin' lads. If it makes you feel any better, it's p¡ssing down here on the Costa del Sol.

Dampintheattic · 17-05-2013 6:28pm

14 degrees here all day today. Just made a short thunder shower. Steam rising off a load of five inch stone I bought to try fix a few broken drains. When you see steam like that, you know the grass is growing!!!!!!
What a welcome sight.

Conmaicne Mara · 17-05-2013 6:31pm

Dampintheattic wrote: »

14 degrees here all day today. Just made a short thunder shower. Steam rising off a load of five inch stone I bought to try fix a few broken drains. When you see steam like that, you know the grass is growing!!!!!!
What a welcome sight.

That'll be one of them April showers...

mf240 · 17-05-2013 6:32pm

mf240 wrote: »

Ya almost feels like its turning a corner here this am.

An animal shower of hailstones at 4 ish but nice and warm now again.

Cows came in loaded with bainne.

1chippy · 17-05-2013 7:18pm

Beautiful day here today, long may it last.

bob charles · 17-05-2013 7:23pm

Couple of serious showers here, informed there was heavy hailstones where I have beet planted yesterday:( didnt bother going to investigate - things are bad enough

whelan1 · 18-05-2013 5:12am

not raining here yet:D

RobertKK · 18-05-2013 5:46am

On higher ground in Kilkenny

Mean                              Deg   Deg         Wind                 Dom
Day Temp  High   Time   Low    Time   Days  Days  Rain  Speed High   Time    Dir
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1   8.9  13.7   17:31   4.3   02:51   9.3   0.0   0.4   7.4  24.1   10:54   WNW
 2   9.8  15.7   15:21   4.3   02:59   8.5   0.0   0.0   8.1  29.0   15:23    SW
 3  10.4  13.3   17:32   7.1   23:50   7.9   0.0   2.6  18.6  46.7   15:50    SW
 4  10.0  14.9   17:49   6.0   07:21   8.3   0.0   2.2  14.7  40.2   12:33     W
 5  11.8  16.2   12:59   9.4   23:45   6.5   0.0   0.0  16.5  40.2   11:43    SW
 6  10.9  14.8   17:10   7.8   23:09   7.4   0.0   0.2  13.2  33.8   11:10   SSW
 7  12.3  17.7   14:32   8.2   05:59   6.0   0.0   1.0   3.7  32.2   15:54    SE
 8  10.1  14.2   15:00   6.2   23:23   8.2   0.0   9.8  18.1  54.7   10:13    SW
 9   8.2  10.7   16:04   6.2   00:17  10.1   0.0   4.4  26.0  57.9   01:26   WSW
10   8.8  12.8   17:02   5.2   23:45   9.3   0.0   2.8  16.4  51.5   13:05     W
11   7.6  11.1   17:25   4.8   00:48  10.7   0.0   1.6  19.1  70.8   15:20   WNW
12   8.8  12.5   17:10   5.2   00:43   9.4   0.0   2.8  17.3  49.9   14:39     W
13   6.6   9.9   17:17   4.2   23:53  11.7   0.0   1.0  17.2  59.5   16:03     W
14   6.4  12.1   15:42   2.9   04:27  11.8   0.0   2.8  11.2  32.2   22:58     W
15   6.9  10.6   18:07   3.2   06:30  11.0   0.0   0.0  19.3  49.9   09:11   NNW
16   7.2  11.1   13:33   4.0   00:52  11.1   0.0   0.6   7.4  29.0   15:09   SSW
17   8.8  14.3   17:07   3.7   03:52   9.5   0.0   0.0   7.1  29.0   11:49    NE
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
     9.0  17.7     7     2.9    14   156.7   0.0  32.2  14.2  70.8    11     WSW