Drought 2020

charolais0153

dePeatrick wrote: »

I never once thought to look it up and I can always smell the rain coming sometimes as much as several hours beforehand, it is a very distinctive smell. Yer a gas man for knowing that

Ozone is the chemical

Doctors room ghost

Raining nicely in east Galway.closheens on the road

Tileman

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Raining nicely in east Galway.closheens on the road

Not a drop here. Cracks in the ground now. Unbelievable heat today again but turned very cool in the evening. Was lovely actually. No rain smell in the wind here .

Lime Tree Farm

What's a closheen

Doctors room ghost

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

What's a closheen

A puddleen only bigger

Reggie.

Hold on I can hear rain on the roof

Still waters

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

A puddleen only bigger

So........ a puddle

Reggie.

Still waters wrote: »

So........ a puddle

Dont try to understand the galway crowd

Base price

We just had a nice shower that lasted 10mins, the concrete got wet.

Dickie10

raining in the last 5 mins here in south west Meath, great smell.

Doctors room ghost

Still waters wrote: »

So........ a puddle

Once a puddleen goes over a certain size or joins up with another puddleen it becomes a closheen.
Closheens are often found at the butt of a hill and make a hurrrrrrrr sound when you hit them in a car.
Hubcaps and mudflaps are often found in closheens

Lime Tree Farm

I'll do a rain dance in the morning, if it doesn't arrive overnight.

Still waters

Heavy rain here with an hour

Bleating Lamb

Still waters wrote: »

Heavy rain here with an hour

Where’s that?.....had good 5 minute shower here around 9pm....N Leitrim but more needed.

Track9

The wind shifted around this evening & freshened up. ( In West Cork )
Got a few spits of rain only & now it's dry again.
This evening there's talk of Dairymen near Cork on the super dry ground, put cows back in the sheds today, as the grass was dried out & growth had stopped.
There's no fear that would happen in the South West.

Thepillowman

dePeatrick wrote: »

I never once thought to look it up and I can always smell the rain coming sometimes as much as several hours beforehand, it is a very distinctive smell. Yer a gas man for knowing that

Too many table quizzes.

longgonesilver

Bo dearg wrote: »

can you connect two different wells into the one water system. wells are about 3 quarters of a mile apart

_Brian wrote: »

Sure.
I’m thinking Stick a non return valve on the supply from each and they won’t interfere with each other.

Bo dearg wrote: »

yea that was my fear that one would be interfering with the other. Non return valve is probably the way to go

They could both pump into the one system but to have them both working simultaneously and automatically you will have to get very inventive with the controls or one will end up doing all the work.

Tileman

longgonesilver wrote: »

They could both pump into the one system but to have them both working simultaneously and automatically you will have to get very inventive with the controls or one will end up doing all the work.

We had 5 minute shower . Ground bone dry again this morning

Lime Tree Farm

Got a decent shower of rain here, ground surface slightly damp this morning.

Reggie.

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

Got a decent shower of rain here, ground surface slightly damp this morning.

Same as that. Only thing is weather is cooler so may last longer and not evaporate away

Dakota Dan

Wildsurfer wrote: »

Does he think he was young in 2018....

Or 1984 which was the driest year I remember, his memory is playing tricks on him.

Dakota Dan

Still waters wrote: »

So........ a puddle

Surely still waters understands puddles.

Hard Knocks

Dakota Dan wrote: »

Or 1984 which was the driest year I remember, his memory is playing tricks on him.

Were the this dry this early?
1995 was a great summer

_Brian

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Were the this dry this early?
1995 was a great summer

1995 was a savage summer but wasn’t this dry this early. The big bonus in 95 is the dry weather lasted on into October.

I remember maybe 76/77 there was a serious blast of hot dry weather, I remember the fields all around this area in Cavan burnt red, but that may have been overgrazing as this area was much heavier stocked back then.

_Brian

We had about 90 minutes of “heavy mist” there. Better than nothing.

mf240

Track9 wrote: »

The wind shifted around this evening & freshened up. ( In West Cork )
Got a few spits of rain only & now it's dry again.
This evening there's talk of Dairymen near Cork on the super dry ground, put cows back in the sheds today, as the grass was dried out & growth had stopped.
There's no fear that would happen in the South West.

Why would they put them in , just feed outside

whelan2

mf240 wrote: »

Why would they put them in , just feed outside

To make things look worse than what they are

Buford T. Justice XIX

Problems in the UK as well.
https://twitter.com/GrasscheckGB/status/1268116214519345152?s=19

Gawddawggonnit

https://twitter.com/ransonnick/status/1268205022237667328?s=21

It’s barely visible, but if you look hard enough you can see the difference...:)

Mooooo

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

https://twitter.com/ransonnick/status/1268205022237667328?s=21

It’s barely visible, but if you look hard enough you can see the difference...:)

Looks like it would suit such a farm alright, what's it like to graze in a wet spring / autumn / summer in heavier ground?
No problem if areas prone to drought look to use those but if some of us are forced to use mixes like that it will mean reseeding more often and cow's housed for longer in the year..... Have said previously the "droughts" I have here may slow growth a bit but it's wet conditions cause more issues not dry. Blanket solutions don't fit either way