whats the weather like in your area?

sandydan · 21-06-2016 10:15PM

keep going wrote: »

Every drop of it welcome down here, kids and myself cooped up allday is the only downside

was trying to get to Letterkenny last Tuesday, couldn't travel through Carrig on Shannon and had to take a diversion, fields flooded, roads almost impassible and to add more fun to it there was speed detector van parked on roadside with cars trying to crawl though water over one foot high , there was water going in through doors in Boyle , yet 100 hundred metres at other side of town roads were dry and a contractor was cutting silage further on,
imo that downpour was of no benefit to any field that was covered with a foot of water.
started baling today at 11 and rain poured for 15 mins, had to postpone till afternoon.

Redbishop · 22-06-2016 04:43PM

Silage in, ground in good shape too, a couple of skiffs yesterday and none today here, happy enough now.
Some slurry left, but not enough to cover meadows again, will put it out tomoro and some fertiliser.

davidk1394 · 23-06-2016 08:40AM

Sunny day down here with a light breeze. Nothing but mowers and balers going around here

whelan2 · 23-06-2016 10:11AM

lovely day, at silage bales

Dawggone · 23-06-2016 05:38PM

Was to go racing in Auteuil but decided against it as it was 34* earlier on. Just heard on the radio it was called off due to high temps.
After a long cold spring/early summer 34* feels like 54*!

pedigree 6 · 23-06-2016 07:06PM

Dawggone wrote: »

Was to go racing in Auteuil but decided against it as it was 34* earlier on. Just heard on the radio it was called off due to high temps.
After a long cold spring/early summer 34* feels like 54*!

All that hot weather in France has sent torrential downpours and flooding to the south and southeast of England.
Hope Waffletractor and Mf 290 not too badly affected.

_Brian · 26-06-2016 12:43PM

Whole wet morning here. Heavy ground here is now getting very wet.

Mild weather is keeping grass growing on.

Base price · 26-06-2016 02:38PM

_Brian wrote: »

Whole wet morning here. Heavy ground here is now getting very wet.

Mild weather is keeping grass growing on.

Some of the fields are in need of topping but the ground is too wet to travel

davidk1394 · 26-06-2016 02:43PM

Very humid weather down this side. great grass growth but cant get the sheep shorn

Username John · 26-06-2016 02:46PM

Base price wrote: »

Some of the fields are in need of topping but the ground is too wet to travel

Tis a bit overcast here now, real heavy feeling day... Was in the car an hour ago it said twas 24.5 deg... And it felt it too... Kids in the paddling pool outside the door...

No rain worth talking about here in a while... We had a wet day maybe 10 days or so...

Edit : 15 days ago I think. Have had a few bits of showers since, but nothing major...

Base price · 26-06-2016 03:13PM

Username John wrote: »

Tis a bit overcast here now, real heavy feeling day... Was in the car an hour ago it said twas 24.5 deg... And it felt it too... Kids in the paddling pool outside the door...

No rain worth talking about here in a while... We had a wet day maybe 10 days or so...

Edit : 15 days ago I think. Have had a few bits of showers since, but nothing major...

17 degrees today and it was 12.5 degrees yesterday.
On a positive note the wet warm weather has helped the Wild Bird Cover seed to strike well - all be it what is left of the oat seed after the crows had their fill.

White Clover · 26-06-2016 08:37PM

Username John wrote: »

Tis a bit overcast here now, real heavy feeling day... Was in the car an hour ago it said twas 24.5 deg... And it felt it too... Kids in the paddling pool outside the door...

No rain worth talking about here in a while... We had a wet day maybe 10 days or so...

Edit : 15 days ago I think. Have had a few bits of showers since, but nothing major...

Jeez john, we're in the same county but clearly have a different climate! Horrible wet day here again. Ground getting soft.

darragh_haven · 26-06-2016 08:43PM

White Clover wrote: »

Jeez john, we're in the same county but clearly have a different climate! Horrible wet day here again. Ground getting soft.

I'm not too far from John and we had a half inch of rain last Sunday. But the ground remains rock hard. Im not asking for rain but if it comes along, it'll be welcomed.

Picture tells it's own story. Rainfall radar. ..

Kovu · 26-06-2016 08:43PM

I sank enough at the lower end of a field that water came into my welly

Three heifers in heat today so at least the cooler weather is doing some good!

dh1985 · 26-06-2016 08:53PM

Kovu wrote: »

I sank enough at the lower end of a field that water came into my welly Three heifers in heat today so at least the cooler weather is doing some good!

What's the connection between temperature and heats? Never new of a link. Thought mixed.weather, showers and the like had a negative effect on conception rates too

Kovu · 26-06-2016 08:58PM

dh1985 wrote: »

What's the connection between temperature and heats? Never new of a link. Thought mixed.weather, showers and the like had a negative effect on conception rates too

There's a correlation of sorts in that cows won't usually jump in hot weather. I posted something similar about it a couple of weeks ago so I'm going to be lazy and just quote myself

:P

Kovu wrote: »

There's a few articles on it, I took the graph below from the first one I seen. Few hot days that's then broken by rain and cooler weather always brings an explosion of cows into heat around us. Most of the articles are based in the US but if you take the average heat our cattle are used to it works out about the same.

This is actually one of the better ones http://arch-anim-breed.fbn-dummerstorf.de/pdf/2009/at09p459.pdf

_Brian · 26-06-2016 10:04PM

Base price wrote: »

Some of the fields are in need of topping but the ground is too wet to travel

Same here.
4wd tractor is in shed to split and new clutch so makes things worse

Redbishop · 27-06-2016 08:30AM

_Brian wrote: »

Same here.
4wd tractor is in shed to split and new clutch so makes things worse

Got the silage made on Tuesday and Wednesday , put out some slurry on Thursday morning, we had some severe downpours on Friday and heavy rain through Saturday night and early yesterday, ground is now wet here, wouldn't have managed to work as well, if at all this week.

Username John · 28-06-2016 06:42AM

Raining on and off here since about 5.30. Hopefully we'll get a good drop...

Pic of ground I reseeded last month taken last night. Ground is hard and cracking from lack of rain...

Username John · 28-06-2016 06:49AM

Delete - pic won't attach for some reason...

whelan2 · 29-06-2016 07:35AM

Horrible wet morning

Reggie. · 29-06-2016 07:37AM

whelan2 wrote: »

Horrible wet morning

Dublin is fairly bad

Redbishop · 29-06-2016 07:46AM

Reggie. wrote: »

Dublin is fairly bad

Very wet here all morning, clearing up now, it should clear all fairly early.

Grueller · 30-06-2016 05:02AM

Lovely morning here. Hope it holds off, I have cows feet to do and no indoor crush.

whelan2 · 01-07-2016 11:06AM

26 degrees

Reggie. · 01-07-2016 11:09AM

whelan2 wrote: »

26 degrees

Oh yeah rub it in why don't ya :rolleyes:

_Brian · 01-07-2016 12:22PM

Pouring rain and windy here in Cavan all morning.. Thank god to be stuck inside all day doing paperwork for my "real job".

blue5000 · 01-07-2016 04:23PM

whelan2 wrote: »

26 degrees

Well for you, not missing a heat wave here yet anyway.:pac:

Nekarsulm · 01-07-2016 04:46PM

Cavan. 11 degrees, very heavy showers going about and at midday we had hailstones amid a downpour of rain.
Grass growth slowed right down.

_Brian · 01-07-2016 05:22PM

Nekarsulm wrote: »

Cavan. 11 degrees, very heavy showers going about and at midday we had hailstones amid a downpour of rain.
Grass growth slowed right down.

We had quite the thunderstorm pass over there and rain like dowel rods. Nice start to July

whats the weather like in your area?

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