What's the weather like in your area 2

Username John · 27-02-2017 5:37pm

foxy farmer wrote: »

Could hear rumbling from around 2.30 Was checking NW storm radar for the lightning strikes. Showed 3 in a line from Clon north through Coppeen. One wicked flash at 3.00 with thunder right down on top of it.

Yeah, thats the one, knocked out the power for us for a while...

Some flash and some bang

High bike · 27-02-2017 7:17pm

Cold with a few showers of hailstones and more to come for the week,was going to let a few yearlings out but will wait till the w.end now and see

ganmo · 27-02-2017 9:55pm

started today with no jacket...ended with hat and gloves

Muckit · 28-02-2017 12:11pm

There's a breeze blowing that would cut the undercarriage off a 6 tonne track machine

Muckit · 28-02-2017 12:12pm

ganmo wrote: »

started today with no jacket...ended with hat and gloves

Pants optional

_Brian · 28-02-2017 12:13pm

We had a coating of icy snow this morning, just wet and cold now, real cold.

pedigree 6 · 28-02-2017 2:31pm

Sun's out.
Cows out.
A bit blowy out.
8 degrees.

Buford T. Justice XIX · 28-02-2017 2:34pm

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Sun's out.
Cows out.
A bit blowy out.
8 degrees.

I think I saw a salmon in one of the silage fields...

pedigree 6 · 28-02-2017 2:48pm

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

I think I saw a salmon in one of the silage fields...

Ate him you might gain a bit of knowledge.

foxy farmer · 28-02-2017 3:00pm

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

I think I saw a salmon in one of the silage fields...

Tis zero grazers we have in fields down here. That said ground is still wet. Bit of ripping being done. Field cleared last week greening up again.

Mooooo · 28-02-2017 4:31pm

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Sun's out.
Cows out.
A bit blowy out.
8 degrees.

Will be fencing from the roadways, at least with one slap of the sledge the post will go down seeing as ground is so soft

CloughCasey1 · 01-03-2017 9:37am

Lovely spring morning in North Galway. ☺

Reggie. · 01-03-2017 11:18am

CloughCasey1 wrote: »

Lovely spring morning in North Galway. ☺

For how long

pedigree 6 · 01-03-2017 11:26am

Sun's out.
Cows out.

According to Met Eireann I should be washed out of it by now.

For anyone depending on the weather and working outdoors and that's probably everyone here.
This is the most dependable forecast for precipitation.
I think anyway.
It's the French weather model APERGE on the weather outlook website.

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/arpege.aspx

Mooooo · 01-03-2017 11:29am

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Sun's out.
Cows out.

According to Met Eireann I should be washed out of it by now.

For anyone depending on the weather and working outdoors and that's probably everyone here.
This is the most dependable forecast for precipitation.
I think anyway.
It's the French weather model APERGE on the weather outlook website.

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/arpege.aspx

Ah ya see the met eireann deluge won't come till your gone away from the yard and are not there to bring the cows back in

pedigree 6 · 01-03-2017 11:39am

Mooooo wrote: »

Ah ya see the met eireann deluge won't come till your gone away from the yard and are not there to bring the cows back in

I'm chained to the yard here.
So no worries there.

Timmaay · 01-03-2017 12:42pm

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Sun's out.
Cows out.

According to Met Eireann I should be washed out of it by now.

For anyone depending on the weather and working outdoors and that's probably everyone here.
This is the most dependable forecast for precipitation.
I think anyway.
It's the French weather model APERGE on the weather outlook website.

http://www.theweatheroutlook.com/twodata/arpege.aspx

1st time looking at this thread in about 2wks. Similar time since I've read any sort of weather forecast. I've had an earful from my dad about it apparently pissing down over the next week, so when I saw that you had posted here I thought I might take a mosey and see what you had said about it all, and as I half expected it was to say you didn't really have a clue hahaha. That all sums up how much I care about the weather forecast 2bh, I take it hour by hour, if the cows have their heads down and are grazing without ploughing up the place they are out, if they are standing at the gap or arses to tje the wind they come back in.

pedigree 6 · 01-03-2017 1:54pm

Timmaay wrote: »

1st time looking at this thread in about 2wks. Similar time since I've read any sort of weather forecast. I've had an earful from my dad about it apparently pissing down over the next week, so when I saw that you had posted here I thought I might take a mosey and see what you had said about it all, and as I half expected it was to say you didn't really have a clue hahaha. That all sums up how much I care about the weather forecast 2bh, I take it hour by hour, if the cows have their heads down and are grazing without ploughing up the place they are out, if they are standing at the gap or arses to tje the wind they come back in.

Still no rain here and I hope it stays away till September.:D
It's nearly like a summer's day here.
Spreading dairy washings atm here and ground conditions are good.

Talking to a fella in the local ag store yesterday and he was saying it's shocking bad weather as oul fellas do.
I said there was great drying out yesterday and no rain and I had the cows out yesterday.
"Oh it's going to be flooded out tomorrow.
Shocking weather."

Still a lot of people around me have cows in fulltime. I'm in the minority.
I think some people love misery.

TITANIUM. · 01-03-2017 2:13pm

Yes you guessed it, bucketing it down in South kerry. Heavy hard cold rain showers.

Timmaay · 01-03-2017 2:13pm

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Still no rain here and I hope it stays away till September.:D
It's nearly like a summer's day here.
Spreading dairy washings atm here and ground conditions are good.

Talking to a fella in the local ag store yesterday and he was saying it's shocking bad weather as oul fellas do.
I said there was great drying out yesterday and no rain and I had the cows out yesterday.
"Oh it's going to be flooded out tomorrow.
Shocking weather."

Still a lot of people around me have cows in fulltime. I'm in the minority.
I think some people love misery.

I got one or two idiot heifers ploughing through any fence around them, milkers all took a 10min spin around a paddock that is never fit for grazing early, and Phuck me they ploughed it up in the 10mins it took me to get them outa it. If my whole farm was like that field I'd prb plant the place!

Buford T. Justice XIX · 01-03-2017 2:16pm

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Yes you guessed it, bucketing it down in South kerry. Heavy hard cold rain showers.

Just starting here now, miserable git of a day:(

I was fencing this morning and stuck down a few lightish corner stakes with just the tractor loader. it surprised me as I didn't think land was as wet as that.

And all the brambles and alder trees are starting to bud as well. Spring can't be long more.

whelan2 · 01-03-2017 2:20pm

Lovely day here today, a real spring day. Yesterday was a total wash out, cows still in. Land still too wet for umbilical lad to spread

RightTurnClyde · 01-03-2017 4:25pm

Smashing day up until 10 mins ago. Spent all day up until now spreading slurry on grazed paddocks. No marking or damage. Could see rain coming in the distance, opened wire to let cows in. They legged it home, they must have seen it coming too.
There's hail and rain falling sideways now. Milling.

RightTurnClyde · 01-03-2017 4:26pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Lovely day here today, a real spring day. Yesterday was a total wash out, cows still in. Land still too wet for umbilical lad to spread

Sorry, but the rain in on the way.

mahoney_j · 01-03-2017 4:45pm

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

Smashing day up until 10 mins ago. Spent all day up until now spreading slurry on grazed paddocks. No marking or damage. Could see rain coming in the distance, opened wire to let cows in. They legged it home, they must have seen it coming too.
There's hail and rain falling sideways now. Milling.

Snap same story here heavy rain since about 2.45 ,cows back in shed munching on some nice baled silage ,rain stoped now so hopefully back out later

blue5000 · 01-03-2017 4:55pm

Nice morning here, but just had a miserable shower. What's the outlook like?

pedigree 6 · 01-03-2017 5:07pm

Cows in.
Raining.

whelan2 · 01-03-2017 7:16pm

RightTurnClyde wrote: »

Sorry, but the rain in on the way.

yup started about half an hour ago

Dickie10 · 01-03-2017 10:38pm

pelted rain all evening in south-west Meath, land has a film of water lying on it now

Timmaay · 01-03-2017 11:20pm

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Cows in.
Raining.

Cows stated in after milking, but going out now, not really fair to leave 60 on 30 cubicles for the night ha. Can move 30 drys off the other leanto of cubicles over the next day or so if sh1te hits the fan.

TITANIUM. · 02-03-2017 8:34am

Lovely bright dead calm morning, still fairly cold though.

whelan2 · 02-03-2017 7:32pm

Wet

Reggie. · 02-03-2017 7:50pm

whelan2 wrote: »

Wet

Yep

davidk1394 · 02-03-2017 9:46pm

Dull day all day but it was dry till the evening then a few heavy showers

stretch film · 02-03-2017 9:57pm

First shower of the day just now.
Have been very lucky in last 48 hrs .
Missed a lot more than we got .

freedominacup · 02-03-2017 10:34pm

stretch film wrote: »

First shower of the day just now.
Have been very lucky in last 48 hrs .
Missed a lot more than we got .

We got everything that passed. Mad the way it works. I was much closer to you for a couple of hours at rugby training and every sign it was raining heavily there a lot of the day also.

RightTurnClyde · 03-03-2017 8:10am

Started horsing rain at 5pm yesterday. First night I had to lock them in.
Heavy rain all night, looks like they're going to be in today aswell.

TITANIUM. · 03-03-2017 10:54am

Is this bad weather forcing many of ye to rethink your turn out dates? I hand around paddys day in my head at the start of the year but judging by the state if the place and the forecast I can't see anything going out before the start of April.

blue5000 · 03-03-2017 11:49am

http://www.met.ie/latest/rainfall_radar.asp

No panic on the plough yet.:eek:

Buford T. Justice XIX · 03-03-2017 12:10pm

Tis a bit damp out today.

whelan2 · 03-03-2017 12:18pm

Left a few springing cows out in my driest paddock last night, one of them calved . It's fairly wet this morning. Calf up and sucking-angus are hardy feckers. Still raining

pedigree 6 · 03-03-2017 12:29pm

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Tis a bit damp out today.

Fairly wet alright.:(

You left the frying pan out on the grass there.
That must have been a tasty dinner, to do that.:D

No rain here. Wet after last night but cows back out today.

Timmaay · 03-03-2017 12:55pm

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Fairly wet alright.:(

You left the frying pan out on the grass there.
That must have been a tasty dinner, to do that.:D

No rain here. Wet after last night but cows back out today.

I was feeling smug that I'd missed the worst of it up until last night. But it utterly bucketed down most the night, cows waiting at the gap for afew hrs. In now on the last bit of maize, about 2 or 3 more buffer feeds of that, and 12 leafy bales, then it's grass grass grass all the way hmmm. There is a full pit of 69dmd silage which my dad would happily feed the milkers, but not on my watch. But soya hulls, rolled barley, and a neighbour who is selling maize will get me nicely outa trouble if needs be.

Reggie. · 03-03-2017 1:00pm

pedigree 6 wrote: »

Fairly wet alright.:(

You left the frying pan out on the grass there.
That must have been a tasty dinner, to do that.:D

No rain here. Wet after last night but cows back out today.

Looks more like a wok to me

pedigree 6 · 03-03-2017 1:10pm

Reggie. wrote: »

Looks more like a wok to me

Good call.

Base price · 03-03-2017 1:27pm

Reggie. wrote: »

Looks more like a wok to me

I reckon it's a sophisticated device for measuring rainfall

foxy farmer · 03-03-2017 2:11pm

Base price wrote: »

I reckon it's a sophisticated device for measuring rainfall

With the amount that's falling here it would be gone over scale long ago this morning. Not designed for Irish conditions I reckon.:)

_Brian · 03-03-2017 2:32pm

Some rain falling today folks, ground is like jelly.
I saw the us storms online and reports they headed off east, we can look forward to more wet windy weather so.

Mooooo · 03-03-2017 2:40pm

Serious water falling non stop since yday evening. Spring is ending up being as late as if we had a wet dec/ Jan in terms of stock out here.will have to use heifers to dry and graze ground but they won't get thru much. Hopefully in like a lion and out like a lamb for March

Reggie. · 03-03-2017 2:56pm

Base price wrote: »

I reckon it's a sophisticated device for measuring rainfall

I reckon it was thrown at his head by the missus last night and she missed. It just hasn't been retrieved yet

What's the weather like in your area 2

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