When will it stop raining
- Thread starter Old Tip
- Start date
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Haverhill 25 miles from here got flooded
We still have had nothing
We still have had nothing
Me . Nearly zero grass with only 25mm in July.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Depends how long you've been without it. 30 degrees plus and no rain for 9 weeks means I do, desperately. I'm hardly overstocked but I'm buffer feeding and the cows are getting thinner
Move up here , we're swamped with grass
Chopsy Varmint
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Thanks we had about an hour of rain in the night. Can't say how many mm as Rach's dog bust the rain gauge !Rain gauge in the garden says we had a whole 1mm first thing this morning.
However the rain radar shows a big patch of rain coming in off the North Sea, vaguely from the NE and currently over Norwich, with another storm between Ipswich and Sudbury, so you may get lucky today
- Location
- Lincolnshire
All us heavy land arable farmers should grow ten acres of silage grass, bale it, and send it to you folk who's grass stops growing in summer. In return, you would stop doing rain dances when everyone else is desperate to get a half decent harvest season.
but where is it the bloody weather forecasters are so crap now my grandma with her pine cone does a better job
Chopsy Varmint
Member
Watching the rain radar on my day off has become my lockdown substitute for watching rugby.
Yeah, only had one small shower the last 3 days. Trying to plan when to get contractors in is hard work with these forecasts.
Not at harvest time. Would have been kinda nice to have had it in April / May when the crops desperately needed it.Can't decide whether you want rain or not!
- Location
- East Sussex
I did think about starting a thread of "When will it ever rain"!
We had less than 12 mm in July and only 7 mm in these so called thunderstorms this month.
Every day rain is forecast and it is hot and humid and look as if it will pour down any moment, but then it clears again.
There are stories of isolated showers, but the majority of the south east is still in severe drought with no grass growth at all.
Many of the lambs we are selling now have only ever had rain on there backs twice since April!!
We had less than 12 mm in July and only 7 mm in these so called thunderstorms this month.
Every day rain is forecast and it is hot and humid and look as if it will pour down any moment, but then it clears again.
There are stories of isolated showers, but the majority of the south east is still in severe drought with no grass growth at all.
Many of the lambs we are selling now have only ever had rain on there backs twice since April!!
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
I'm with you. No rain all day despite grey / black skies and it being on the forecast
Sorry you've had it so dry mate.
We've had plenty at home (buckets and buckets), while the most easterly of the 'Eastern estates' has had one downpour in several weeks, and the dust is flying. Hay crop there is maybe 50%....and it's where I ship the forest cows to winter.
you wouldn't think 15 miles could be such a difference, but its a different world.