What's the weather like in your area 2

mahoney_j · 10-02-2020 10:37am

55 mm rain from late Saturday to yesterday evening ,.sormy and now it’s fookin snowing .times like these I’m v happy I’ve no outside cubicles anymore

jaymla627 · 10-02-2020 10:42am

Timmaay wrote: »

What about rolled barley? I can't be arsed with any wet feeds like fodder beet/maize from around paddy's day onwards bar the weather is like spring 18, too much effort and too much feed space to try ensure each cow gets her say 5kgdm, much easier to take the hit on the feed cost and feed it in the parlour.

To much starch at high feed rates and cows will be getting acidosis with high levels of barley , for convenience soya hulls are probably your best bet, but cost wise the oat hull beet mix here will be costing 155 euro per ton of dm in the pit and is a serious buffer-feed on top of that with high energy and plenty of fibre from the hulls to keep cows stomachs right

Buford T. Justice XIX · 10-02-2020 11:45am

mahoney_j wrote: »

55 mm rain from late Saturday to yesterday evening ,.sormy and now it’s fookin snowing .times like these I’m v happy I’ve no outside cubicles anymore

The rain is blowing horizontally here now. Rivers are near the top of their banks here so we may as well postpone spring for another 2 weeks.

jaymla627 · 10-02-2020 12:17pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

The rain is blowing horizontally here now. Rivers are near the top of their banks here so we may as well postpone spring for another 2 weeks.

One of the local grass gurus here put out urea last week on few hundred acres, around 200 acres of it now under a few feet of water

Mortelaro · 10-02-2020 12:41pm

Heavy snow up here in south Wicklow for over an hour now
Stuck straight away turned whole place white :O

keepalive213 · 10-02-2020 1:12pm

60mph winds here on the Atlantic, no snow but outrageous rainfall

foxy farmer · 10-02-2020 1:29pm

Lightning and an absolute humdinger of a hail shower. Place is white.

Mooooo · 10-02-2020 1:55pm

Collectively the last 4 days have been ****e and next 4 look much the same

davidk1394 · 10-02-2020 2:53pm

Sleet and rain here on and off all day

High bike · 10-02-2020 6:01pm

Winter only started here yesterday,snow sleet thunder and lightning and hailstones,glad I cut the grass last week

I says · 12-02-2020 10:24am

Frost with snow on top and frost on that again Tis Baltic out

whelan2 · 12-02-2020 10:25am

Another storm supposed to be arriving at the weekend

Mooooo · 12-02-2020 10:45am

Icy, roads dangerous in spots

Buford T. Justice XIX · 12-02-2020 11:08am

Lovely cool calm night and morning here. Gentle breeze out but no frost or snow, thankfully.

Villain · 12-02-2020 12:42pm

Say my name wrote: »

Ah it's a good day when you can get your hedge cut so you can see your badgers.
I'd say the wife is thrilled..

Day is not actually too bad here. Not much rain overnight and stock out again.

I hear Alan O Reilly of Carlow Weather of ^^above on the local radio news bulletin about the weather. Another time it'd be Met Eireann. ME are either thrilled or fuming at losing work. I see he's been given the use of a car to promote that car brand. And people say talking about the weather doesn't pay the bills..

It took 12 years before it gave me any benefit :P

davidk1394 · 12-02-2020 1:16pm

A smashing day here. Frosty morning but its lovely and settled

Buford T. Justice XIX · 12-02-2020 2:36pm

davidk1394 wrote: »

A smashing day here. Frosty morning but its lovely and settled

Strong winds and rain forecast for later in the west.

Parishlad · 12-02-2020 2:44pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Strong winds and rain forecast for later in the west.

Ah stop, sick of it at this stage. Never seen so many places flooded before.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 12-02-2020 9:52pm

Parishlad wrote: »

Ah stop, sick of it at this stage. Never seen so many places flooded before.

Have a look below.
https://twitter.com/MetEireann/status/1227674036538351617?s=19

Mooooo · 12-02-2020 9:54pm

Monsoon at the minute. Heifers having big whores of calves as well adds up to a lovely night

theaceofspies · 12-02-2020 9:59pm

It's been like a drawn out version of End of Days since last Saturday here in North Kerry. And Denis hasn't even come knocking yet.:eek:

whelan2 · 12-02-2020 10:00pm

Mooooo wrote: »

Monsoon at the minute. Heifers having big whores of calves as well adds up to a lovely night

What are they in calf to ?

Mooooo · 12-02-2020 10:13pm

whelan2 wrote: »

What are they in calf to ?

A mix really, fr 4530, fr 2298 I've calved a fair share of him no bother, aa4088 as well. Heifers got feck all ration, tbh I was thinking I should have given them more as think some are lacking in condition so silage for the most part, a bit of maize but not much. Some are the last of the autumn born heifers so perhaps put more into the calf as are near fully grown themselves at 2.5

whelan2 · 12-02-2020 10:16pm

Mooooo wrote: »

A mix really, fr 4530, fr 2298 I've calved a fair share of him no bother, aa4088 as well. Heifers got feck all ration, tbh I was thinking I should have given them more as think some are lacking in condition so silage for the most part, a bit of maize but not much. Some are the last of the autumn born heifers so perhaps put more into the calf as are near fully grown themselves at 2.5

Had 2 bulls with my heifers. A fr and an Angus. 18 calves so far . 1 fr and 17 angus and the fr calf was a bull

Timmaay · 13-02-2020 12:01am

Mooooo wrote: »

A mix really, fr 4530, fr 2298 I've calved a fair share of him no bother, aa4088 as well. Heifers got feck all ration, tbh I was thinking I should have given them more as think some are lacking in condition so silage for the most part, a bit of maize but not much. Some are the last of the autumn born heifers so perhaps put more into the calf as are near fully grown themselves at 2.5

I'm not making much effort this winter to hold back the drycows or incalf heifers, the silage is reasonably wet but they are getting ad-lib hay and a decent bit of maize, and anything in the calving shed get nearly a full milker diet, and thankfully I'm having very few problems with calvings, alot less than some previous years.

Hard Knocks · 13-02-2020 12:13am

Heavy rain & strong wind here

tanko · 13-02-2020 12:27am

Sure it feels like it's been raining for six months now with an odd short break here and there.

Neddyusa · 13-02-2020 12:49am

Hard Knocks wrote: »

Heavy rain & strong wind here

And bitter cold as well - the worst of all combinations

Buford T. Justice XIX · 15-02-2020 12:42pm

Miserable night, miserable morning, miserable weekend ahead.:(

awaywithyou · 15-02-2020 1:02pm

Buford T. Justice VI wrote: »

Miserable night, miserable morning, miserable weekend ahead.:(

not great then.... ground conditions were much better a mth ago.... twill take a week of fine weather to travel after this

Buford T. Justice XIX · 15-02-2020 2:15pm

awaywithyou wrote: »

not great then.... ground conditions were much better a mth ago.... twill take a week of fine weather to travel after this

It's supposed to get better from midweek but even my dry fields are saturated this morning. Fecking hate having cows in milking, it adds another 2 hours to the day.

_Brian · 15-02-2020 4:32pm

Rain just broke there in last few minutes.
Was relentless and blustery too.

gozunda · 15-02-2020 6:06pm

Just waiting for the next round of high winds and flogging rain. Joy .....

whelan2 · 15-02-2020 6:57pm

Very heavy rain around 2pm. Lovely evening here.

_Brian · 15-02-2020 7:14pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Very heavy rain around 2pm. Lovely evening here.

We had a break and the sky brightened well.
But had a burst of heavy rain, hail and wind. It just slathered out of nowhere and lasted 20 minutes, but serious rain fell in that time. It’s heading on your way now.

whelan2 · 15-02-2020 7:19pm

_Brian wrote: »

We had a break and the sky brightened well.
But had a burst of heavy rain, hail and wind. It just slathered out of nowhere and lasted 20 minutes, but serious rain fell in that time. It’s heading on your way now.

Young lad has a game in carlow tomorrow-which was postponed from last Sunday- dont know yet if it will go ahead. They will be playing on astro so it will probably go ahead

whelan2 · 16-02-2020 10:42am

Nice sunny morning

patsy_mccabe · 16-02-2020 11:49am

What happened the storm? Nothing but a strong breeze here in East Clare.

Tileman · 16-02-2020 12:46pm

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

What happened the storm? Nothing but a strong breeze here in East Clare.

Was very windy and wet overnight here in the midlands but it’s a beautiful morning here now.

keepalive213 · 16-02-2020 12:58pm

Windy here and lots of rain, I could probably just copy and paste this every day from now till May the way its going.

davidk1394 · 16-02-2020 2:55pm

Wind and hail stones here.

blue5000 · 16-02-2020 3:42pm

Wind, rain and the odd bolt of lightening. I just want to go back to bed until April:p

whelan2 · 16-02-2020 3:46pm

Heard on the radio theres a red weather warning for rain for Wales

Say my name · 16-02-2020 4:01pm

davidk1394 wrote: »

Wind and hail stones here.

Just about got the cows in before that hit here.
Had them in the yard and the hail would cut the eyes out of ya.

davidk1394 · 16-02-2020 4:03pm

Say my name wrote: »

Just about got the cows in before that hit here.
Had them in the yard and the hail would cut the eyes out of ya.

Fairly sick of it now.

Say my name · 16-02-2020 4:43pm

davidk1394 wrote: »

Fairly sick of it now.

Only consolation is we've had far worse winters.
Not sure what it's like with you but at least there's grass there atm to graze whenever the chance presents itself. There's often been times on paddy's day when the cows would be lucky to get out and the place burnt to a crisp with frost.

Mortelaro · 16-02-2020 6:50pm

Got a gust of 109.2kmh here in South Wicklow today
Trees were bending

Neddyusa · 17-02-2020 12:34am

Say my name wrote: »

Only consolation is we've had far worse winters.
Not sure what it's like with you but at least there's grass there atm to graze whenever the chance presents itself. There's often been times on paddy's day when the cows would be lucky to get out and the place burnt to a crisp with frost.

That's the thing though..... The rain is bound to stop at some point. It's been almost constantly broken since last August.
And I think the Atlantic will relent within the next 3 weeks. But that means we are likely to get the frost in March and April.

Kangaroolala · 17-02-2020 12:43am

The wind is howling outside the window.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 17-02-2020 4:04am

Just in from a calving and lt must have let down a load of rain since 7pm. I'm tracking the lawn now.

What's the weather like in your area 2

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