NZ in for it.

[Campbell]

Family in AKL tell me worst Storm in 49 years is about to strike.
Fonterrafarmer have you got your Swan Dry and Gummies ready?

 

[Courier]

All over the news at the moment - fingers crossed.

 

[mr grumpy]

@Irish NZ

 

[Irish NZ]

Feels like eye of the storm atm. Calm and dry. Last night wasn't.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Family in AKL tell me worst Storm in 49 years is about to strike.
Fonterrafarmer have you got your Swan Dry and Gummies ready?

To be fair , I'm over the "media" doing their nuts over the weather, "Dan the f@#%ing weather man" said last night that the weather is like 50 years ago, more like "49" years, unless its 2018 now and he wasn't even here in 1968!!! I remember the 10th of April 1968 and the weather quite well.... quite a bit of wind and rain (From the drive home in the Cortina Mk2 from Huntly).
As for bad weather, everyone seems to have forgotten Cyclone Bola too
It is what it is, we have had half of our average rainfall in the last two months and the lower part of the farm has been under water four times too.

 

[Hilly]

Not good news, hope all ends well for you all, being on an extremely exposed hill farm i know the pain of bad weather all to well sadly.

 

[Kiwi Pete]

To be fair , I'm over the "media" doing their nuts over the weather, "Dan the f@#%ing weather man" said last night that the weather is like 50 years ago, more like "49" years, unless its 2018 now and he wasn't even here in 1968!!! I remember the 10th of April 1968 and the weather quite well.... quite a bit of wind and rain (From the drive home in the Cortina Mk2 from Huntly).
As for bad weather, everyone seems to have forgotten Cyclone Bola too
It is what it is, we have had half of our average rainfall in the last two months and the lower part of the farm has been under water four times too.

People have short memories eh.
was just thinking of you when I was looking at nullschool last night for a weather map. Hope it's short and sweet.. had 58mm here last 24hours but that cold driving sh!##y east rain. Will be interesting to see what's underwater when the Easter tides peak, I'll venture my sisters will be kicked out of Pounawea.
Even had to find some matches this morning!!

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Oh the irony of "climate change", yet they compare cyclone Cook with cyclone Giselle from April 1968.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Family in AKL tell me worst Storm in 49 years is about to strike.
Fonterrafarmer have you got your Swan Dry and Gummies ready?

After all that was expected (here) , what a nonevent!!! a bit of rain ,nothing out of there ordinary, bugger all wind and now its sunny and quite warm.

 

[Rainmaker]

Pouring down in mid canty still, wheat is doing it's best to sprout after this months rain.

 

[glasshouse]

Pouring down in mid canty still, wheat is doing it's best to sprout after this months rain.

still not finished harvest?

 

[Rainmaker]

No. Decent harvest weather and yields until late Feb then the weather turned feral.Plenty of people have yet to finish.

 

[Iben]

No. Decent harvest weather and yields until late Feb then the weather turned feral.Plenty of people have yet to finish.

Any improvement in the weather to get harvesting done? Feel for you, constant wind and rain over harvest is hard to take sometimes.

 

[Rainmaker]

Haven't done any more harvest, this weekend might be small window to put ruts in the land and get a pile of wet grain.

 

[Iben]

Haven't done any more harvest, this weekend might be small window to put ruts in the land and get a pile of wet grain.

Not good. Been there several times before.

What drying system do you have?