Too cold

[muleman]

Does anyone think we need cloud cover as like a kind of insulation?

 

[Zippy768]

Does anyone think we need cloud cover as like a kind of insulation?

Nop,
Cloud - for the last 8 months - usually comes with rain.
Nice to see blue skies somewhen

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Just put another woolly hat on

 

[Hilly]

Same every april for years now , turns cold n dry cutting wind out the north and eats more grass than the stock , its demoralising .

 

[Welderloon]

This weather has been badly needed to dry the land up, long may it continue

 

[Guleesh]

No, legend is, that there's a big hot shiny thing up in the sky, and the clouds are in the way.

 

[Hilly]

This weather has been badly needed to dry the land up, long may it continue

Yes frost dose tend to dry it right enough , is it good for much else ? Not grass or lambing or calving or cropping …..

 

[Welderloon]

Yes frost dose tend to dry it right enough , is it good for much else ? Not grass or lambing or calving or cropping …..

It is usually the catalyst for a drier, more settled & warmer spell
There is heat in the sun & the grass is starting to grow.

 

[Hilly]

It is usually the catalyst for a drier, more settled & warmer spell
There is heat in the sun & the grass is starting to grow.

We have more grass than ever before at this time but the frost and freezing wind will be away with it this week .. its horrendously cold north wind …

 

[Clive]

Does anyone think we need cloud cover as like a kind of insulation?

plants need sunlight, water and CO2 to grow. - we have no shortages of 2 of those things recently!

 

[blackieman83]

Still raining here.

 

[Dougalhtid]

Same every april for years now , turns cold n dry cutting wind out the north and eats more grass than the stock , its demoralising .

Cold comes later every year

 

[nonemouse]

Still raining here.

Even sleet and hailstones this afternoon

 

[livestock 1]

Fairly hard frost

 

[Johnnyboxer]

Fairly hard frost

Where?

 

[Wooly]

Always look on the bright side.......

Could be worse, you could end up with 2 years of rain in one day........like Dubia !

 

[Hilly]

Always look on the bright side.......

Could be worse, you could end up with 2 years of rain in one day........like Dubia !

Man made cloud seeding .

 

[Hilly]

Ust ablut the hardest frost of he winter ffs this is a joke ..

 

[Kidds]

My apples are flowering, of course there's a frost.
-1°C, could do without it but I think they'll survive. The hail showers are doing more harm.

 

[livestock 1]

Where?

Northern lakes Cumbria