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What's the weather like in your area 2

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    #4592
    patsy_mccabe
    Registered Users Posts: 10,716 ✭✭✭✭patsy_mccabe


    Mac Taylor wrote: »
    Patsy, would you keep many cattle out over the winter?
    I've a few fresh calved cows still out. They're in a dry field with grass. Better than spending big money on straw.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #4593
    Bullocks
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    I've a few fresh calved cows still out. They're in a dry field with grass. Better than spending big money on straw.

    How long would the the pouron need to be rainfast ? I could be a mile off but I thought it was ok if it got an hour or so after application


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    #4594
    patsy_mccabe
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    Bullocks wrote: »
    How long would the the pouron need to be rainfast ? I could be a mile off but I thought it was ok if it got an hour or so after application
    It is very oil based, in fairness. Still I'd like to avoid rain for a day at least.

    Constant drizzle here all day in east Clare.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #4595
    Bullocks
    Registered Users Posts: 5,890 ✭✭✭Bullocks


    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    It is very oil based, in fairness. Still I'd like to avoid rain for a day at least.

    Constant drizzle here all day in east Clare.
    Same here , it got heavier in the afternoon


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    #4596
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    Overcast here but the yards still dry. A good bit cooler than yesterday though.


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    #4597
    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,518 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Had some family over Thursday night for a cards night, maybe 20 total..


    Had the door open outt to the patio as it was getting too warm inside...


    Same night last year it snowed and a few cars needed a push on the lane.


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    #4598
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users Posts: 9,667 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Feels like were half way through spring!! - My Daffs are half up and the Goldies in the Garden Pond have come out of hibernation due to the amount of midge/fly activity!! Have a feeling though that winter proper will kick in before next month is out.


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    #4599
    Dickie10
    Registered Users Posts: 3,876 ✭✭✭Dickie10


    unbelivable weather the last week, grass growing still, very easy weather on sheep.


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    #4600
    CHOPS01
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    Mild and dry like a Spring day in South East Clare. Birds in full voice.


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    #4601
    Joe Daly
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    Ploughing sandy ground before the winter kicks in, see man cutting grass this am shirt shorts on him.


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    #4602
    valtra2
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    Is it to dry for urea. Lol


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    #4603
    Mooooo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,611 ✭✭✭Mooooo


    Dunno bout the rest of ye but these are the first days without rain in about 2 months straight


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    #4604
    Reggie.
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    valtra2 wrote: »
    Is it to dry for urea. Lol

    8 ton going out here on the 15th


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    #4605
    Base price
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    Misty and mild here, I noticed young docks starting to grown in the haggard during the week. I'm just back after following the local trencher fed hounds for a few hours and was boiling wearing a hoodie.


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    #4606
    I says
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    Warm day with a constant very fine mist


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    #4607
    patsy_mccabe
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    So 2018 was a dry, hot year. Well according to Met Eireann, rainfall for Shannon Airport was 965mm. Average annual for shannon is 977mm.
    Temp was an average of 10.8, average annnual is 10.7.

    'When I was a boy we were serfs, slave minded. Anyone who came along and lifted us out of that belittling, I looked on them as Gods.' - Dan Breen



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    #4608
    Muckit
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    I don't get what u are saying Patsy. It was a dry and hot Summer. But we got plenty of precipitation for the rest of the year.


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    #4609
    Reggie.
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    Muckit wrote: »
    I don't get what u are saying Patsy. It was a dry and hot Summer. But we got plenty of precipitation for the rest of the year.

    I think he's saying even after the drought that the year balanced out itself


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    #4610
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    patsy_mccabe wrote: »
    So 2018 was a dry, hot year. Well according to Met Eireann, rainfall for Shannon Airport was 965mm. Average annual for shannon is 977mm.
    Temp was an average of 10.8, average annnual is 10.7.

    I was wondering about that yesterday talking to another farmer about last year's weather.

    Just shows what can be hidden inside an average figure.


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    #4611
    ganmo
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    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    I was wondering about that yesterday talking to another farmer about last year's weather.

    Just shows what can be hidden inside an average figure.

    I had a quick look at the Dublin figures a d the only figure that's far from average is evaporation a


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    #4612
    foxy farmer
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    Today is gone to sh1te. Drizzle turning to light showers. Last 2 days were grand. Ground drying and mild.


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    #4613
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    foxy farmer wrote: »
    Today is gone to sh1te. Drizzle turning to light showers. Last 2 days were grand. Ground drying and mild.
    Great weather for slurry, ground dry, temperatures warm, no rain forecast.


    The exact opposite of what it will be the day the spreading season opens:rolleyes:


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    #4614
    mengele
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    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Great weather for slurry, ground dry, temperatures warm, no rain forecast.


    The exact opposite of what it will be the day the spreading season opens:rolleyes:

    I was just coming on to write the same comment as above. But obviously the higher powers out in the eu know better than us.


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    #4615
    Buford T. Justice XIX
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    mengele wrote: »
    I was just coming on to write the same comment as above. But obviously the higher powers out in the eu know better than us.
    Apparently it's better to plaster on slurry at 2kgallons/acre on the opening day more or less regardless of the conditions than it would be to allow rates of 1k/acre now when ground conditions are good, there's no work pressure on farmer or contractor and the 3-6 units of N&P would be taken up by the grass straight away.


    Farcical.


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    #4616
    Base price
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    Buford T. Justice V wrote: »
    Apparently it's better to plaster on slurry at 2kgallons/acre on the opening day more or less regardless of the conditions than it would be to allow rates of 1k/acre now when ground conditions are good, there's no work pressure on farmer or contractor and the 3-6 units of N&P would be taken up by the grass straight away.


    Farcical.
    Jackie Cahill TD has asked the Minister to allow for early slurry spreading

    https://www.farmersjournal.ie/lift-slurry-ban-and-allow-farmers-start-spreading-today-fianna-fail-430320


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    #4617
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,242 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Kids are gone with my sister to the wild lights in Dublin zoo. They were meant to go this time last year but it was cancelled that day due to stormy weather. Some change this year.


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    #4618
    whelan2
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    Looking on the news there it's raining in Sligo, haven't seen rain here like that for a while


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    #4619
    Odelay
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    ganmo wrote: »
    I had a quick look at the Dublin figures a d the only figure that's far from average is evaporation a

    The evaporation figure is well worth while paying attention to.


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    #4620
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,225 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Mullingar had 81% rainfall of it's long term average in 2018.
    Mace head, Galway 81%.
    Casement, Dublin 86%.
    Gurteen agricultural college 89%.
    Phoenix Park, Dublin 89%.

    These are staggering numbers when most on here would have you believe that things always average out.


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    #4621
    charolais0153
    Registered Users Posts: 6,225 ✭✭✭charolais0153


    Say my name wrote: »
    Mullingar had 81% rainfall of it's long term average in 2018.
    Mace head, Galway 81%.
    Casement, Dublin 86%.
    Gurteen agricultural college 89%.
    Phoenix Park, Dublin 89%.

    These are staggering numbers when most on here would have you believe that things always average out.

    Average out in 12 months maube not. In 12 years definitely


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