What's the weather like in your area 2

rangler1

Highest march soil temp and growth since 2012, 2012 had a north wind and low soil temp for the whole of april after and the rest of the year was washout

CloughCasey1

charolais0153 wrote: »

Jesus I know its said often but the difference in weather is astonishing, we would be pretty close to athenry in the grand scheme of things ,half hour away,it got 34mm of snow/rain when we hot nothing. We had 6 really dry days with clear skies and small bits of frost in the morning, it felt like June cos the grass was so dry and it was warm enough and some light land seemed to be getting a small bit burned iykwim and then timmay who regularly has drought is getting poached as ****. Its unbelievable really

It made up for it last night!!

Bullocks

rangler1 wrote: »

Highest march soil temp and growth since 2012, 2012 had a north wind and low soil temp for the whole of april after and the rest of the year was washout

Do you keep a diary ? I have one here but never keep it filled , it's interesting to be able to look back

Bullocks

I'd say we got over half an inch of rain last night

rangler1

Bullocks wrote: »

Do you keep a diary ? I have one here but never keep it filled , it's interesting to be able to look back

yea, OH keeps a diary and has a little weather funnel and soil thermometer, 6ml last night....we've had very litlle rain this week

Muckit

Damp evening here. Can visibly see the place greening up the last few days.

Mooooo

Muckit wrote: »

Damp evening here. Can visibly see the place greening up the last few days.

Yeah as much as I give out about the rain all bar the wettest spots will drive on after it

Lady Haywire

Looks like Base Price is getting hammered over there! (Cavan looks black as well from here)

tanko

There was a feckin monsoon here at around 5.30 today, back to square -50 again as regards ground conditions. Might get cattle out in June :pac:

Lady Haywire

tanko wrote: »

There was a feckin monsoon here at around 5.30 today, back to square -50 again as regards ground conditions. Might get cattle out in June :pac:

I think I hit that one in the car, had to stop talking to Mum as I wasn't able to hear her over the rain on the roof :eek:

Buford T. Justice XIX

I came across this article just now and said I'd throw it up as a contrast to the rain we've been having this last few weeks. it's a small bit about the wildfires that destroyed huge swaths of Mid and Western American plains.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/20/us/burying-their-cattle-ranchers-call-wildfires-our-hurricane-katrina.html?_r=1

Base price

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Looks like Base Price is getting hammered over there! (Cavan looks black as well from here)

OH is back home and he said that the ground is dry about the yard while he was feeding the younger calves that are on tad.

Base price

As an aside - cracking picture Kovu.

charolais0153

Base price wrote: »

As an aside - cracking picture Kovu.

Kov- who?;)

Lady Haywire

charolais0153 wrote: »

Kov- who?;)

Arrah don't mind her, talks to cats that one

Base price

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Arrah don't mind her, talks to cats that one

Farrell

Base price wrote: »

OH is back home and he said that the ground is dry about the yard while he was feeding the younger calves that are on tad.

Fierce downpour around 8, then again at 930/10.
Can forget about slurry for awhile

Lady Haywire

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Looks like Base Price is getting hammered over there! (Cavan looks black as well from here)

Farrell wrote: »

Fierce downpour around 8, then again at 930/10.
Can forget about slurry for awhile

Told ya! Gat a great view up here so I do

Farrell

Lady Haywire wrote: »

Told ya! Gat a great view up here so I do

If you were any good, sure you would of done the few things to save me getting wet : - P ...... or maybe that was the intendion 🀔

Bleating Lamb

Lashing rain here in Leitrim....ground had soaked well earlier in week but the last 48 hours have undone all that!

Mooooo

Plenty rain last night again, was gonna chance cows out again today but will need some drying before going out again. Was warmer last night at 9 than it is now. Will be back to cows walking over the public road to get them in the top of paddocks when we do go back out.

davidk1394

Smashing morning here. Sunny but cool

Cherrycola

Just a quick question, whats the general schedule for spreading slurry/dung?
Is it just every dry sunny day or is there an actual timeline?
Because round these parts every bloody time there's a decent day for getting clothes washed and dried there seems to be some yoke out on a tractor spreading sh1te! And as a result, spreading smell all across the area and into my laundry!!!
I grew up beside a farm, slurry smell was never as bad 20yrs ago as it is now, and definitely the regularity of it now is unreal! What's changed???
Every bit of fine weather we got last year drew them out in droves!

And on a Sunday!!! The lords day! Give it a rest ffs!!!!

I said

Lovely sunny day here great drying in it.

Reggie.

I said wrote: »

Lovely sunny day here great drying in it.

Going at slurry?

whelan2

Reggie. wrote: »

Going at slurry?

Possibly dung

Lady Haywire

Cherrycola wrote: »

Just a quick question, whats the general schedule for spreading slurry/dung?
Is it just every dry sunny day or is there an actual timeline?
Because round these parts every bloody time there's a decent day for getting clothes washed and dried there seems to be some yoke out on a tractor spreading sh1te! And as a result, spreading smell all across the area and into my laundry!!!
I grew up beside a farm, slurry smell was never as bad 20yrs ago as it is now, and definitely the regularity of it now is unreal! What's changed???
Every bit of fine weather we got last year drew them out in droves!

And on a Sunday!!! The lords day! Give it a rest ffs!!!!

If it's spread in rain or when rain is forecast it's liable to run into drains/watercourses. So it's for the benefit of the environment that it's spread on sunny days.
Regularity? There's more sheds around than 20yrs ago, modernisation has gotten rid of the byre.

Buford T. Justice XIX

Cherrycola wrote: »

Just a quick question, whats the general schedule for spreading slurry/dung?
Is it just every dry sunny day or is there an actual timeline?
Because round these parts every bloody time there's a decent day for getting clothes washed and dried there seems to be some yoke out on a tractor spreading sh1te! And as a result, spreading smell all across the area and into my laundry!!!
I grew up beside a farm, slurry smell was never as bad 20yrs ago as it is now, and definitely the regularity of it now is unreal! What's changed???
Every bit of fine weather we got last year drew them out in droves!

And on a Sunday!!! The lords day! Give it a rest ffs!!!!

You can spread slurry any day outside November to 15th January, or 31st January in Northern counties. Those are the strictly NO Spreading Days.

After that, you can spread any day as long as conditions allow, ie rain and field conditions and you shouldn't be spreading.

Despite the weather being ideal for most of November this year, land dry and grass growing, no slurry was able to be spread due to the legislation. And, typically, as soon as it was legally allowable to spread, both rain and terrible ground conditions arrived to prevent spreading unless it was critical.

Therefore, slurry that would have been spread in January and February wasn't spread and now farmers are taking EVERY opportunity to get it out, Sunday, Monday, bank holiday or whatever. Them is the hands we were dealt.

Welcome to rural life:)

I said

Reggie. wrote: »

Going at slurry?

Flat out

I said

whelan2 wrote: »

Possibly dung

Tomorrow