Its coming......

[teslacoils]

Day two of the long awaited dry spell....

....hosing it down now.

 

[Wombat]

400 would work if temps peaked at 23-24max June July with one proviso... 200 mm needs to fall april, may and june.
400 is a bloody disaster if 50 or less falls may june.
Sodden winter followed by dry or very dry early summer is the single worst scenario.
Dry winter followed by cool and wet ( by our standards ) early summer is "grain shed isn't big enough"

300-350 mm being enough here is a laughable idea ( otherwise you would cry).
91/92 growing season iirc, maybe 92/93 was 12.5 rain-guage inches for the growing year, and it wasn't funny.

Most of the winter rain just goes straight through the drains, its been doing that since the first week of Oct here so if we got it at the right times I think 400mm would be perfect, we had under 45mm in May/June 18 and the biblically crap spring did more damage than the dry.

 

[Wombat]

Hosing it down here, anyway thats a bit more winter wheat killed

 

[Pilatus]

Surely by the law of averages it can only get better ????

 

[Wombat]

Surely by the law of averages it can only get better [emoji120][emoji120][emoji120][emoji120]

It looked that way in Jan, then we had the wettest Feb on record. After the wettest 5months in 25yrs

 

[Gator]

UK snow warning: New weather map shows Britain faces 8 INCHES of snow

BRITAIN will be hit with a fresh onslaught of freezing weather, as snow and ice is set to batter the country in a few days - with a new weather map forecasting up to 22cm (8 inches) of snow on Friday.

www.express.co.uk

 

[Bury the Trash]

Dry from Monday he said tonight, could dry off fairly quickly with the longer daylight and some wind but plenty of wet patches will stay no doubt .
Field work beckons , or will at least be better for the stock without rain in their backs for a few days.

Hmm , We'll see.

 

[Wombat]

We have heavy rain forecast for Sunday and some unsettled on Tues so it’s not here yet

 

[Wombat]

Middle of next week has some rain now, getting seriously sick of not been able to do anything

 

[Bury the Trash]

strong cold wind last night and when it dropped , well it rained until late morn, probably about another 3/4 of an inch, don't know for sure as the rain gauge blew away again.

forecast now is for dry from tomorrow till wed. here ?

might be wrong tho..........

 

[Still Farming]

Everyone and their dog hope ing

 

[Wombat]

We need a good dry and warm month, ran the ranger across some stubbles this aft and there is water everywhere on the surface

 

[balerman]

Its going to take a while to settle down after such a wet spell,pressure rising this week tho as we go into a new quarter,all this points to an extended dry time....

 

[Bury the Trash]

Its here ! ....

 

[Still Farming]

Rain Wednesday now???

 

[Wombat]

Its here ! ....

If you are talking cold, foggy and crap then yes it is

 

[Wombat]

Well spring lasted a long time

 

[Scribus]

Got some more slurry spread yesterday, quite remarkable how the field had dried over the past few days despite some showers, but that's spring for you, in the autumn the weather can be dry for several days without the same effect. I've often thought that soil conditions are not just a matter of physical properties, the season has some sort of effect as well, yesterday pretty much clinched it for me.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Got some more slurry spread yesterday, quite remarkable how the field had dried over the past few days despite some showers, but that's spring for you, in the autumn the weather can be dry for several days without the same effect. I've often thought that soil conditions are not just a matter of physical properties, the season has some sort of effect as well, yesterday pretty much clinched it for me.

Longer daylight means more evaporation, warmer soil and air temperatures also make a noticable difference .

The birds seem to like it anyway ......very noticable early mornings around here these days .

 

[Wombat]

Wet day tomorrow, so that’s a 2 day dry spell ffs