Historic rainfall charts. Interesting stats

[yellow belly]

In 2012 every one started drilling earlier
now agronomists rule the drilling date start
in 2020 they will be checking each field for bg and advise drilling bg clear fields earlier
for me it rained 5 days too early since 1982 this year and 1992 had very wet last week of September every other year drilling in the last week of September was possible here every other year drilling could be completed in September if you started early enough

2012 was the wettest year in the last 35 by 6 inches
if 2019 has as much as 2012 in december it will be close to wetter
but in 2012 we had much more in April and May than this year

 

[glasshouse]

2012 was wet from April onwards. Dreadful year, more fallow in 2012 than any other year here until this year I expect.

2012 was wet from April onwards. Dreadful year, more fallow in 2012 than any other year here until this year I expect.

fallow would have been better

 

[glasshouse]

year 2000 !!!

anyone that farmed through that (especially grew spuds) deserved a medal! - the year I near decided I should probably just go get a job in a bank! The year that ended my first marriage


young pups talk about 2012 but I note its 48th vs 2000 in 2nd place!

Seems 2000 was he wettest year any farmer still alive has ever farmed through

2000 was a shocker in Scotland, the only year I have never got harvest finished.
40 ac of our own, and 40 ac on a contract farm left out for the birds
only 4% of the total, but it still hurt. landlord on contract farm took a dim view and we got the bullet, it was a mugs game anyway.
Spent a lot of September picketing fuel depots as we couldn't move at all.
If i ever needed a decent early , good harvest, it was that year as i was due to be married in feb 2001, but sods law prevailed.
arrived back from honeymoon into heathrow and while waiting for our flight north, foot and mouth was announced on sky news.
Should have got back on that plane there and then.

 

[glasshouse]

With thanks to Peter Gadd on Twitter the following chart for info

1885 is in there at no 7 wettest autumn with 274 mm
The four preceding years were also horrific
With the krakatoa eruption of 1883 altering weather right round the globe.

 

[matttargett4]

obviously depends on where you are

2012 is the one for me, it started mid april and didnt stop till the following march, this yr is a bit inconveinient but over 90 percent of our forage acres were harvested well, grain harvest was good, ground was dry at depth. other yrs are the same you get a couple of months that wont give over but in 2012 we ruined everything we went near all year.

grass silage with a tractor pushing the spfh, cutting wheat with water half way up it, cutting maize till christmas.
our forage acres were down 70 percent as nothing grew we had so little sun. i recall asking a farmer if we really needed to cut 7 acres of maize in standing water, he replied weve got to have it weve got so little else as a result of the weather. the 7 acres wouldnt have made a trailer load if you could have put it all on one.

i was younger and more cavalier then, i think it would break me now.