Extreme cold weather from Feb 25th on, and now St. Patrick's Day on...

George Sunsnow · 24-02-2018 08:13PM

BigSteaks wrote: »

Jaysus fella stop attacking him. Relax and have a beer or something. 18 pages of this and no decent thread on cap, ifa thread closed. Holy hell whats happening on f&f...

I’m responsible for less than a page of it
Most of it is a tangent on slurry :rolleyes:
There are hundreds of threads and you are in here going on
Roflable tbh

I’ll be back again with the latest when I’ve time

Willfarman · 24-02-2018 08:13PM

Tomorrow is the 25th the start of the invasion of the white walkers....

wrangler · 24-02-2018 08:13PM

BigSteaks wrote: »

Jaysus fella stop attacking him. Relax and have a beer or something. 18 pages of this and no decent thread on cap, ifa thread closed. Holy hell whats happening on f&f...

Swanning in like him and directing the mods to take down posts to do with slurry spreading was a great way to get peoples backs up.
slurry spreading had as much to do with weather as meal deliveries, God knows we waited long enough for it.

valtra2 · 24-02-2018 08:17PM

I must take back out the 'I survived the 2010 big freeze t-shirt'

Say my name · 24-02-2018 08:18PM

Waffletraktor wrote: »

Uncle said there's lots of work being done as it dried up with slurry/ploughing etc going on. Some lads even sowing beans!
Looks like being baltic cold down to -8 at night but no snow so crack on at field work here, hope ye're not too badly affected. The minions might even have to turn the aircon off and heaters on :pac:

Every bit of ground everywhere is being ploughed left right and centre.
The guy with the fert today had a delivery of seed barley on the lorry going to east of here.
You'd want to be sowing beans fairly deep with this predicted weather and deep pockets.

It's some time of anticipation about this upcoming weather. It's two weeks now that people are talking about this. Some difference in years gone by where you just had maybe two days warning (if you were lucky).

squinn2912 · 24-02-2018 08:39PM

What's it givin now lads? Ground well dried up here. We got a few load of slurry out and no marking to talk of. I thought the cold snap more likely for Tuesday

Lady Haywire · 24-02-2018 08:40PM

I don't mind the cold, would prefer to be prepared for it than unprepared and shouting about not being warned!!!

Spanish Eyes · 24-02-2018 08:56PM

Surely you rural people (farmers) will know what to do in bad weather for your crops or animals?

I know it may not be good for YE but townies suffer also. Have a heart.

grassroot1 · 24-02-2018 08:59PM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Surely you rural people (farmers) will know what to do in bad weather for your crops or animals?

I know it may not be good for YE but townies suffer also. Have a heart.

ya twill be hard to keep your skinny latte hot

Spanish Eyes · 24-02-2018 09:09PM

grassroot1 wrote: »

ya twill be hard to keep your skinny latte hot

No wonder there is a rural/urban divide.

Reggie. · 24-02-2018 09:13PM

Emergency water filled up anyways

Snowfire · 24-02-2018 09:16PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Emergency water filled up anyways

Will that not just freeze solid.,?

Lady Haywire · 24-02-2018 09:17PM

Snowfire wrote: »

Will that not just freeze solid.,?

He's going to gather the wife & kids round and they'll lick away at it like suck calves.

TheRiverman · 24-02-2018 09:18PM

Will we be having low single digits tops and precipitation from the East ? .Sinead Ryan puke weather jargon.

uck51js9zml2yt · 24-02-2018 09:21PM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

No wonder there is a rural/urban divide.

Yeah..us townies don't know what a skinny latte is

I just prefer a hot coffee!

Say my name · 24-02-2018 09:23PM

TheRiverman wrote: »

Will we be having low single digits tops and precipitation from the East ? .Sinead Ryan puke weather jargon.

Do you mean Siobhan?

memorystick · 24-02-2018 09:24PM

Reggie. wrote: »

Emergency water filled up anyways

Would that not be better in the shed with straw around it? The middle of it won't freeze but the outside probably will.

Spanish Eyes · 24-02-2018 09:30PM

Must be profitable to farm. But what do I know.

Maybe it is the valuable land with road frontage or something.

Or the incentives from the EU.

OK get to high dudgeon now and rebut.

Lady Haywire · 24-02-2018 09:35PM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

Must be profitable to farm. But what do I know.

Maybe it is the valuable land with road frontage or something.

Or the incentives from the EU.

OK get to high dudgeon now and rebut.

??

I lived in Dublin in the bad snow of 2010 and life went on as normal for the main part. Back at home in Leitrim the roads had no grit, people were stranded, most folks had no water, some gas lines frozen as well. Tractors had to be used to collect people for shopping or deliver groceries to them. There was definitely an urban/rural divide then!

Genghis Cant · 24-02-2018 09:39PM

Folks.... Let's keep this for the upcoming weather event of the next few days.

Away to Chit Chat for the..... Chit Chat!

Thanks. GC

Villain · 24-02-2018 09:52PM

I hope you all watched that forecast by Met Eireann on RTE, a serious week of weather ahead with some serious snowfall, their words not mine!

Lady Haywire · 24-02-2018 09:53PM

Villain wrote: »

I hope you all watched that forecast by Met Eireann on RTE, a serious week of weather ahead with some serious snowfall, their words not mine!

I was indeed, however I got distracted when I heard something like a dog barking in the studio!!

DX85 · 24-02-2018 10:05PM

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Muckit · 24-02-2018 10:12PM

Snowfire wrote: »

Will that not just freeze solid.,?

He put a bottle of vodka in it

Say my name · 24-02-2018 10:13PM

End of March 2013. Wales.

https://youtu.be/hI053DSGTVo

Start of March 2018....it definitely will be Wales again and ...Ireland this time.

Butcher Boy · 24-02-2018 10:19PM

was in skib mart yesterday and on my way home past the council yard the amount of salt and grit they had there was frightening ,

Reggie. · 24-02-2018 10:23PM

Butcher Boy wrote: »

was in skib mart yesterday and on my way home past the council yard the amount of salt and grit they had there was frightening ,

At least they are prepared

Green farmer · 24-02-2018 10:32PM

Say my name wrote: »

End of March 2013. Wales.

https://youtu.be/hI053DSGTVo

Start of March 2018....it definitely will be Wales again and ...Ireland this time.

Hopefully not. Strike fear into any sheep farmer.

Butcher Boy · 24-02-2018 10:38PM

Reggie. wrote: »

At least they are prepared

wont see much of it where I am living reggie.

Reggie. · 24-02-2018 10:40PM

Muckit wrote: »

George you obviously have a passion for all things weather. And thats great. But you really shouldn't be forcing your speculations and opinions down other people's necks. There are no thicks here in F&F. Everyone knows how best to manage their own situation. Give us zome credit. And if the sh*t hits the fan it will be nobody but ourselves that will get us out of it. It wont be a keyboard we will want anyways.

Might be hard to believe, but some people, like myself, might actually like cold dry weather! And we should be entitled to our opinion.

I see George is commenting about us in the weather forum. Claims we are all in denial about what is to come.

Extreme cold weather from Feb 25th on, and now St. Patrick's Day on...

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