What's the weather like in your area 2

Base price

Beautiful sunny day here after some heavy downpours yesterday afternoon and last night. We had a contractor booked to do a bit of spraying on Monday but cancelled him cause rain was forecasted. According to last nights forecast we should have got rain here this afternoon but so far it has remained sunny and dry

zetecescort

Mornings great here all week but you'd nearly set your watch to the rain arriving at 1 o'clock.

ABitofsense

Base price wrote: »

Beautiful sunny day here after some heavy downpours yesterday afternoon and last night. We had a contractor booked to do a bit of spraying on Monday but cancelled him cause rain was forecasted. According to last nights forecast we should have got rain here this afternoon but so far it has remained sunny and dry

I got a contractor to spray today. Chanced it as docks starting get hold in silage ground with the little grass I have in it!. No rain at all today thankfully so the heat should start a but if growth

awaywithyou

tis making a drop... on plus side grass has greened up.. twasnt looking great there for a while.... this is our 1st day of proper rain in 2 months

costacorta

Very wet and windy in cork county ,, got absolutely saturated walking dogs at 6.45 .

Mooooo

awaywithyou wrote: »

tis making a drop... on plus side grass has greened up.. twasnt looking great there for a while.... this is our 1st day of proper rain in 2 months

Mad... have had rain every day for the last 2 weeks I'd say.

Dinzee Conlee

awaywithyou wrote: »

tis making a drop... on plus side grass has greened up.. twasnt looking great there for a while.... this is our 1st day of proper rain in 2 months

Where are you based Away?

DBK1

Mooooo wrote: »

Mad... have had rain every day for the last 2 weeks I'd say.

Same here, midlands area and we’ve definitely had rain for 15 of the last 20 days. This rain definitely not wanted and a fine week badly needed now for silage. A lot of stuff ready for cutting for a week or more now and no chance to get it done. It’ll be mayhem whenever a few fine days do come.

Gillespy

This morning I could see white fields from where the cows are that weren't even mowed yesterday evening. At least 60 acres. Thats confidence in your contractors machinary with such a bad forecast for today.

No chance of dust or midges out today

Alibaba

Miserable . A day / evening that wouldn't be out of place in November.
But for the long bright evenings you'd hardly know what month it was.

Donegalforever

Alibaba wrote: »

Miserable . A day / evening that wouldn't be out of place in November.
But for the long bright evenings you'd hardly know what month it was.

It is the same in N. Donegal.
The seasons are definitely mixed up.

tanko

Today was a joke, no more rain needed for a month now.
The dry weather they’re talking about next week better happen.

older by the day

Way down here in west cork, it has really poured the last 24hours. if it's raining in an hour then il let the cows back in. Grass lodging as I'm fairly low stocked. Tis fairly sickening. Tho I did get paper work done today and got to see maire on the today show.

whelan2

****e

awaywithyou

Dinzee Conlee wrote: »

Where are you based Away?

north kerry.... not too far from dairymaster

while we got alot of rain and we wouldnt want too many days like that.... it was needed here....

Mimon

ABitofsense wrote: »

I got a contractor to spray today. Chanced it as docks starting get hold in silage ground with the little grass I have in it!. No rain at all today thankfully so the heat should start a but if growth

That worked out well. Nice of you to run your carcinogenic chemicals into the watercourses and groundwater.

Jb1989

Mimon wrote: »

That worked out well. Nice of you to run your carcinogenic chemicals into the watercourses and groundwater.

His spray would have been rain fast in a few hours.
I'm sure there is none in the water courses.

ABitofsense

Mimon wrote: »

That worked out well. Nice of you to run your carcinogenic chemicals into the watercourses and groundwater.

Spray was rain fast in 2 hrs as per manufacturers guidelines and applied by a licenced/trained contactor who wouldn't spray if he thought there would be risk.

Mimon

Jb1989 wrote: »

His spray would have been rain fast in a few hours.
I'm sure there is none in the water courses.

Fair enough, apologies to the poster.

whelan2

Another poxy morning

Kevhog1988

Mimon wrote: »

Fair enough, apologies to the poster.

You might educate yourself before attacking people in future

CHOPS01

Rain, sunshine, hail stones, thunder and lightning. Getting it all here.

Injuryprone

Kevhog1988 wrote: »

You might educate yourself before attacking people in future

Another non-farmer thinking they're an expert in agriculture. There's quite a few popping up thesedays

green daries

They know it all these days so they do

Tileman

Unreal shower of hailstones here. Mad weather for end of may. Lake of water in a soft spot where I sowed the wbc. Like November here

Danzy

Lovely 6.5 degrees at 6pm and half inch of rain here today.

zetecescort

saw the weather forecast on the BBC last night, this year on course for the wettest May on record for the UK while last year it was one of the driest month of May on record.

Say my name

zetecescort wrote: »

saw the weather forecast on the BBC last night, this year on course for the wettest May on record for the UK while last year it was one of the driest month of May on record.

We do seem to be in a period of prolonged weather spells.
April 2021 driest.
May 2021 wettest.

Slowing gulf stream or wavy jet stream, whatever it is, it seems to be a thing.

My own thoughts we seem to be heading to a Newfoundland like climate.

Farming looks like it could become more difficult in Ireland to me.

Danzy

Say my name wrote: »

We do seem to be in a period of prolonged weather spells.
April 2021 driest.
May 2021 wettest.

Slowing gulf stream or wavy jet stream, whatever it is, it seems to be a thing.

My own thoughts we seem to be heading to a Newfoundland like climate.

Farming looks like it could become more difficult in Ireland to me.

Saw on some weather site that every month average record has been set in the last decade here, out of the near 400 years of records we have. So wettest, coldest dryest etc if you follow.

About 35% wetter as well now compared to most of last 4 centuries.