Rain

[B&B Pig Man]

Half inch today. Please stop now.

Really?!
I'm reading 5.7mm!

Still enough though!

 

[Trigger Happy]

Some hellish looking rain coming in from the east now,heading for yorks and lincs i think. www.raintoday.co.uk if you dare look!

 

[poorsheepfarmer]

Some hellish looking rain coming in from the east now,heading for yorks and lincs i think. www.raintoday.co.uk if you dare look!

it's here ,rained all day today

 

[franklin]

So long as it stops at some point this year.

 

[Neddy flanders]

40 mm in last 36 hrs plus 20 last Friday. Tramlines all full, floods up, sheep being moved out of flood meadows. Cambs, not Wales. What the hell is going on.

 

[Clive]

Perfect here this will be setting things up for grain fill nicely - 25mm so far on dry ground and dry and warm forecasts for the end of the week to let us get on with the sprayer

 

[franklin]

What the hell is going on.

As usual, either a) "Maritime climate" ie we live in a generally sodden country where localised downpours are now the norm or b) some sodding stock farmer has been praying for rain fro their parched grass. Lets hope this Azores high bucks up and also stays about this year. Thermometer said 9 degree on the way back from York. Flaming June anyone?

 

[Dave Applesquasher]

Finally getting a little bit this evening - o.5mm so far and looks set light but steady for the night will do the world of good to all crops

Can't remember the last time I was happy it was raining ! It's needed here now

Early April last year for me. At the time I didn't realise it wasn't going to stop again until April this year.

 

[franklin]

Got another 10mm overnight. So there is the wet.

 

[peartree pumpkin]

Same here last night
Is it déjà vu didn't the same happen last year
We were getting cattle out of meadows in June '12'

 

[franklin]

No, not the same. This time last year the winter barley was about 5ft tall and we were making 8" ruts spraying. This is different rain from a different direction, and should be stopping very soon.

 

[franklin]

I drove back from the dentist in Yorkshire last night and it was much worse than here.

 

[warksfarmer]

55mm since the beginning of May. It can stop now though and lets have about 2 weeks of 20 degrees please.

 

[Woodlander]

74mm total for May 2013, makes May wetter than 2012 at 39.52mm. 74 only just above average really and following a very dry April at 7.5mm, compared to 131.5mm in 2012. 2012 was killed by 168.5mm in June and 123mm in July, certainly don't want a repeat of that

33mm this week, so thing looked pretty wet on Thursday morning, although drying nicely now.

 

[Wombat]

We've had about an inch this week was drying nicely yesterday, today a bit cloudy and cold only 15deg nice when sun comes out but fresh otherwise

 

[JNG]

Only 36mm in May after 44mm in April, fairly dry on this light ground plants starting to roll up! Im trying very hard not to ask for rain. Nothing forecast for a week at least. Its very unfair farming on these Islands, some want rain and only a short distance away people are washed out regularly.

 

[Sandy]

Desperately needing rain up here never really had anything since early April

 

[JNP]

I'll send it up, we have had plenty in the last 3 days. About 10mm in 2 hours this morning.

 

[Sandy]

Lucky if we've had 20mm since early april

 

[Wombat]

We had 5mm last night/today. At cereals they had that in about 5mins on Thurs Could have done with some early in the season but theses little topups about right here stuff has its toes in now.