It's not a good year but 12 was worse.....
Tough night here. Strong gusts of wind and heavy showers of rain. Raining steadily since around 7pm yesterday evening.
As bad as the ground was it’s even worse. Any sign of dry heat
Ground is like iron here. Can barely put a pigtail stake in the ground. I was discing ground yesterday, had a job to get it into the ground it was so dry.
Jesus neighbours put in the suckling cows here yesterday 😳
Same around here. I only remarked to myself earlier in the week as the pigtails were all bending trying to get them into the ground that the place hasn’t been as dry and hard since 2018.
Where is that, we got feck all rain here last few weeks
Mid west area we are not too bad here further west and north a completely swimming. We were supposed to avoid last night ...... but we got every bit of it. Well sick of this year but the quad isn't getting stuck in gaps yet 🙃 🙄
Friend 25 miles south of me begging for rain
we’ve got 70mm over the last 2 weeks
Just like last winter where the south of the country was getting every last bit of rain that was going and the north was escaping relatively speaking. This summer nearly every band of rain has been travelling on a line from say Galway to Belfast and above
Grass growth has nearly stopped here. Brought in a load of zero grazing this morning. The rain softened up the ground that was discedyesterday so I'm hoping to get grass seeds in today and tomorrow
Alot of men have the cattle in the sheds around here, mine are going in the weekend, I have a field with a decent covering but I cant let them in on it as I couldnt even get the tractor on it to level the ruts from when they last came off it at the end of July. If I let them on it again they will have it tramped to shite so it will be left for the sheep.
Ground is every bit as bad here as it was this time last year but boil ups that appeared last year mean that overall things are worse. If it doesnt pick up soon cattle will be going in meaning that they will have spent more than 8 months of 2024 housed.
I don't think we had four dry days in a row here since the end of June last year. The rain may not have been heavy at times but it rained all the same. I was traveling to Mullingar this morning for a 10am appointment and I noticed large numbers of swallows and house martins gathering on the telephone wires - I reckon they have given up on summer here and are heading on their holidays to sub Saharan Africa.
Alot my neighbor's including myself have been doing smash n grab with silage last few day's...cut turned 2 hour's and baled 2 hours later....we all caught last year's with silage that rotted in Field from August.…Not forgotten so we just cutting whenever can. We're worried about winter coming in sep,😬
I'm worried about the spring barley straw crop. Most that I've seen around NCD, Meath and Kildare is still green at the stem and the straw is only about a foot high. Fingers crossed the weather improves in the next few weeks.
Was at a pitch today. The wind would go right through you. Felt like winter
talking to a fisherman from dingle this morning he says a heat wave from September 2
Ya the new moon is coming the start of September. The Sunday one is finished. Its made a lot of rain here in West Cork in August. A dry September and a fair October is badly wanted
Likewise. I’m in Mayo so good chance it was a different fisherman 🙂
It's the worse night ever here. Hopefully this it might dry up a bit soon. Land is waterlogged.
Plenty of rain here overnight. I'd take another day of it if its coming. Ground is like iron.
Finally some dry weather in the 7 day forecast, I'm sick of looking at cattle with humps on them standing along ditches in the rain.
It's amazing for such a small country you have totally different weather conditions not so far apart on a map
I see that the forecast for next week is gone to the dogs. Could we not get one week of dry weather, too much to ask for i suppose, it’s fair sickening at this stage.
I was expecting a mini heatwave like last year on Tuesday evening it was so balmy, nothing only dirty showers since and the fine forecast is finishing on Saturday, tis a bit slow to say the least.
A smashing day yesterday. Up over 20°C during the middle of the day, nice morning again. A good bit of spring barley being cut around me.
Think the weather for next week has changed again. No rain but was giving Monday very wet here yesterday
Yeah only today and tomorrow looked guaranteed now
That's enough for me, relief milker pulled in, I'm packing the tent and heading to an island. I need a break and I hope I'll come back a better man.
A cold sunny morning here. Wind during the night. Got a small bit of rain yesterday which was needed.
